Status:
COMPLETED
Traumatic Brain Injury - Knowledge Translation
Lead Sponsor:
Columbia University
Conditions:
Traumatic Brain Injury
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Blunt head trauma (BHT) accounts for \>450,000 emergency department (ED) visits for children annually in the US. Fortunately, \>95% of head trauma in children is minor in nature. Although most childre...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Clinicians:
- Our target study population includes clinicians with training in pediatrics (particularly pediatric emergency medicine)or general emergency medicine. As clinical practice is likely to vary among physicians with different training and in different settings, we will include two types of sites for this trial:
- Pediatric emergency departments with \>80% of children cared for by pediatric emergency medicine physicians or general pediatricians.
- General emergency departments with \>80% of children cared for by general emergency medicine physicians.
- Patients:
- Inclusion:
- children younger than 18 years who
- sustained minor blunt blunt head trauma defined by Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores of 14 or 15 on initial ED evaluation
- Exclusion:
- Patients who have any of the following:
- blunt head trauma \> 24 hours prior
- penetrating trauma
- brain tumors
- coagulopathy
- ventriculoperitoneal shunts
- preexisting neurological disorders complicating assessment
- neuroimaging obtained at an outside hospital before transfer to a study site
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
28669 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01453621
Start Date
November 1 2011
End Date
July 1 2014
Last Update
April 16 2015
Active Locations (1)
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Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States, 10032