ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2006
An epidemiological study of head injuries in a UK population attending an emergency department.
Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- A systematic review of optical coherence tomography findings in adults with mild traumatic brain injury.Eye (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of the qualitative literature on older individuals' experiences of care and well-being during physical rehabilitation for acquired brain injury.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury and the Associations With Risk Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: A Systematic Review.The Journal of head trauma rehabilitationPooled it
- Coping Strategies in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Regional Cortical Thickness Correlates of Intellectual Abilities Differ in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury Versus Those With Orthopedic Injury in the Chronic Post-Injury Phase.Journal of neurotrauma · 2023Article
- Longitudinal trends in incidence and health care use for pediatric concussion in Alberta, Canada.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Access to the Intensive Care Unit by Severe Head Injury Patients.Journal of neurosciences in rural practice · 2019Article
- Orthopedic Injured versus Uninjured Comparison Groups for Neuroimaging Research in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of neurotrauma · 2019Article
- Sleep Disorders Following Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Traumatic brain injury: a potential cause of violent crime?The lancet. Psychiatry · 2018Review
- Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients From Kashan, Iran.Trauma monthly · 2016Article
- Socio Economic Status and Traumatic Brain Injury amongst Pediatric Populations: A Spatial Analysis in Greater Vancouver.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Intensive Care Foundation Gold Medal Award Presentations.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2015Article
- Social problem-solving and social adjustment in paediatric traumatic brain injury.Brain injury · 2015Article
- Mental Health Implications of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Children and Youth.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2015Article
- Changes in aspects of social functioning depend upon prior changes in neurodisability in people with acquired brain injury undergoing post-acute neurorehabilitation.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Sleep duration and sleep quality following acute mild traumatic brain injury: a propensity score analysis.Behavioural neurology · 2015Article
- Functional plasticity in childhood brain disorders: when, what, how, and whom to assess.Neuropsychology review · 2014Review
- Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in Austria.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2014Article
- Early rehabilitation in head injury; can we improve the outcomes?Archives of trauma research · 2013Article
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Abstract
We aimed to identify the attendance rate for all head injuries, and for moderate to severe head injury (MSHI), in an emergency department (ED), and related risk factors for MSHI, including age, sex, area of residence, and socioeconomic status (SES). This was a retrospective descriptive epidemiological study of an ED database of head injury attendances over 6 years, carried out in an ED that serves both urban and mixed rural and urban areas, with a wide socioeconomic range, and a total population of 344,600. The main outcome measure was rates of attendance for head injury. Head injury presentations accounted for 3.4% of all attendances per year. An overall rate of 453 per 100,000 was found for all head injuries, of which 40 per 100,000 were moderate to severe (10.9%). Urban residents had significantly greater risk of presenting with MSHI compared with residents of mixed/rural areas. Males were more at risk than females, and children and adolescents had higher risk of MSHI. A high attendance rate of MSHI was found in the <5 year old age group in urban areas for both sexes. A gradient, with higher attendance in groups with lower SES, was observed for children in urban areas, while the gradient was reversed in mixed/rural areas. Head injuries are a relatively common cause of attendance at ED. There is significant variation in attendance with MSHI with regard to sex, age, socioeconomic factors, and type of area of residence. The planning and delivery of preventative and management services may be improved by such analyses.
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