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| Title |
New guidelines for the initial management of head injury
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-11-51 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carolyn M Benson, G Bryan Young |
| Abstract |
The majority of patients presenting with mild head trauma will have no intracranial pathology and can be safely discharged home. It is estimated that 10% to 15% of these patients will have clinically significant findings on computed tomography imaging and up to 1% may require neurosurgical intervention. The revised Scandinavian Head Trauma Guidelines provide an evidence- and consensus-based algorithm to assist physicians in determining which patients presenting with minimal, mild or moderate blunt head injury are at higher risk for intracranial pathology and thus require neuroimaging and hospital admission. Striking a balance between health care costs and risk of morbidity remains an ongoing challenge and we will present our concerns with this useful, but conservative management algorithm. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| China | 1 | 13% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Rwanda | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 38% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 34 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 7 | 19% |
| Other | 5 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 17% |
| Unknown | 6 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 56% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2013.
All research outputs
#6,589,770
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,495
of 3,613 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,826
of 195,507 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#79
of 97 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,613 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.6. This one is in the 30th percentile – i.e., 30% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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