Temporal profile of care following mild traumatic brain injury: predictors of hospital admission, follow-up referral and six-month outcome.
John K YueEthan A WinklerSourabh SharmaMary J VassarJonathan J RatcliffFrederick K KorleySeth A SeaburyAdam R FergusonHester F LingsmaHansen DengSacha MeeuwsOpeolu M AdeoyeJonathan W RickCaitlin K RobinsonSiena M DuarteEsther L YuhPratik MukherjeeSureyya S DikmenThomas W McAllisterRamon Diaz-ArrastiaAlex B ValadkaWayne A GordonDavid O OkonkwoGeoffrey T Manleynull nullPublished in: Brain injury (2018)
Clinical factors modulate triage to admission, while demographic/socioeconomic elements modulate follow-up care acquisition; six-month functional disability associates with both clinical and demographic/socioeconomic variables. Improving triage to acute and outpatient care requires further investigation to optimize resource allocation and outcome after mTBI. ClinicalTrials.gov registration: NCT01565551.