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ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2021

Trends and variation in repeat neuroimaging for children with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage.

Pradip P Chaudhari, Jose A Pineda, Richard G Bachur, Robinder G Khemani

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Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A challenging decision for emergency physicians: Routine repeat computed brain tomography of the brain in head trauma in infants and neonates.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2024
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  2. Trends and variation in repeat neuroimaging for children with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Pradip P ChaudhariDivision of Emergency and Transport Medicine Children's Hospital Los Angeles Los Angeles California USA.
Jose A PinedaKeck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Los Angeles California USA.
Richard G BachurDivision of Emergency Medicine Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USA.
Robinder G KhemaniKeck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Los Angeles California USA.
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles · USHarvard University · USUniversity of Southern California · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe aimed to determine trends and institutional variation in repeat neuroimaging in children with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage and to identify factors associated with neuroimaging modality (subsequent magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] vs computed tomography [CT]).

methodsWe conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of 35 hospitals in the Pediatric Health Information System database. We included children <18 years of age hospitalized from 2010-2019 with intracranial hemorrhage and who underwent a brain CT. We calculated repeat neuroimaging rates by modality and used regression analyses to examine temporal trends. We used hierarchical logistic regression to identify factors associated with subsequent MRI versus repeat CT, controlling for hospital.

resultsWe identified 12,714 children with intracranial hemorrhage, of which 5072 with repeat neuroimaging were studied. Of the 5072 children with repeat neuroimaging, repeat CT was performed in 67.6% (n = 3429) and subsequent MRI in 32.4% (n = 1643). Overall repeat neuroimaging with either a CT or MRI remained similar from 2010-2019 (

conclusionsWe found that repeat neuroimaging rates for children with intracranial hemorrhage vary substantially by institution. We also found that although MRI was increasingly used to re-image these children, overall repeat neuroimaging rates (CT or MRI) have not decreased over the past decade. Future work to implement optimal utilization of neuroimaging in these children is needed.

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brain injuriesdiagnostic imaginghospitalsintracranial hemorrhagesneuroimagingpediatric emergency medicinepediatricstraumaticwounds and injuries

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PMID33733248
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