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Head Trauma, Acute — Goals and Metrics — Clinical Pathway: Emergency

Acute Head Trauma Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department

Goals

  • Standardize patient evaluation following acute head trauma
  • Minimize the inappropriate use of head CT
  • Rapidly identify potentially serious intracranial injury
  • Reduce time to ultimate disposition
  • Educate patient/family with concussion discharge instructions and schedule appropriate follow-up
  • Always consider occult non-accidental injury in children < 2 years of age

Metrics

  • Head CT frequency by age, triage category
  • Frequency of sedations for head CT
  • Additional time to observe and defer imaging
  • Percentage of 72 hour revisits for those on whom imaging is deferred

 

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