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Question: Among children with mild blunt head injury, is isolated vomiting associated with clinically important brain injury or evidence of injury on cranial computed tomography?
Question type: Descriptive
Study design: Prospective cohort
Investigators from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) conducted a secondary analysis of data collected during a prospective cohort study to determine the association between vomiting and clinically important traumatic brain injury (ciTBI), or evidence of brain injury on cranial computed tomography (CT). For the original study, all patients <18 years old with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores of 14 or 15 and acute blunt head trauma presenting to the participating emergency departments (ED) between June 2004 and September 2006 …
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