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- Title
Implementation of adapted PECARN decision rule for children with minor head injury in the pediatric emergency department.
- Authors
Bressan, Silvia; Romanato, Sabrina; Mion, Teresa; Zanconato, Stefania; Da Dalt, Liviana
- Abstract
Of the currently published clinical decision rules for the management of minor head injury (MHI) in children, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule, derived and validated in a large multicenter prospective study cohort, with high methodologic standards, appears to be the best clinical decision rule to accurately identify children at very low risk of clinically important traumatic brain injuries (ciTBI) in the pediatric emergency department (PED). This study describes the implementation of an adapted version of the PECARN rule in a tertiary care academic PED in Italy and evaluates implementation success, in terms of medical staff adherence and satisfaction, as well as its effects on clinical practice.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 7, p801
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01384.x