• Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2020

    Multicenter Study Observational Study

    Imaging and admission practices in paediatric head injury across emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand: A PREDICT study.

    • Natalie Phillips, Stuart R Dalziel, Meredith L Borland, Sarah Dalton, Mark D Lyttle, Silvia Bressan, Ed Oakley, Stephen Jc Hearps, Amit Kochar, Jeremy Furyk, John A Cheek, Yuri Gilhotra, Jocelyn Neutze, Franz E Babl, and Paediatric Research in Emergency Department International Collaborative (PREDICT) group.
    • Emergency Department, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
    • Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Apr 1; 32 (2): 240-249.

    ObjectivesVariation in the management of paediatric head injury has been identified worldwide. This prospective study describes imaging and admission practices of children presenting with head injury across 10 hospital EDs in Australia and New Zealand.MethodsProspective observational multicentre study of 20 137 children (under 18 years) as a planned secondary analysis of the Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study. All presentations with head injury without prior imaging were eligible for inclusion. Variations in rates of computed tomography of the brain (CTB) and admission practices between sites, ED type and country were investigated, as were clinically important traumatic brain injuries (ciTBIs) and abnormal CTBs within CTBs.ResultsAmong the 20 137 enrolled patients, the site adjusted CTB rate was 11.2% (95% confidence interval [CI] 7.8-14.6); individual sites ranged from 2.6 to 18.6%. ciTBI was found in 0.4-2.2%, with abnormal scans documented in 0.7-6.5%. As a percentage of CTBs undertaken, ciTBIs were found in 12.8% (95% CI 10.8-14.7) with individual site variation of 8.8-16.9%, and no statistically significant difference noted, and traumatic abnormalities in 29.3% (95% CI 26.2-32.3) with individual site variation between 19.4 and 35.6%. Among those under 2 years,traumatic abnormalities were found in greater than 50% of CTBs at 90% of sites. Admission rate overall was 24.0% (site adjusted) with wide variation between sites (5.0-48.9%).ConclusionAcross the 10 largely tertiary EDs included in this study, the overall CTB rate was low with no significant variation between sites when adjusted for ciTBIs.© 2019 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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