Cost-effectiveness of patient observation on cranial CT use with minor head trauma
March 2022
Multiple CHPR members have been involved in mentoring Sonia Singh as she completes her doctoral research. One paper from her research was recently published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. After assembling an analytic cohort of 18,471 children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with blunt head trauma, Singh and her team stratified them by the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) traumatic brain injury (TBI) risk categories. The research found that planned ED observation in selected children with minor head trauma was cost-effective for reducing CT use for the PECARN intermediate-risk and high-risk categories.
Read Singh’s paper: “Cost-Effectiveness of Patient Observation on Cranial CT Use with Minor Head Trauma.”