The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
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J Head Trauma Rehabil · Sep 2011
Comparative StudyDo postconcussive symptoms discriminate injury severity in pediatric mild traumatic brain injury?
To assess whether postconcussive symptoms (PCS) can be used to discriminate injury severity among children with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). ⋯ Overall, the accuracy of group classification was relatively modest, with a large proportion of misclassifications of children in the mild-TBI groups. Although children with mild TBI have more PCS than children with OI, PCS do not permit sufficiently accurate discrimination of mild TBI and injury severity to warrant diagnostic decisions at this time.