Date
Spring 3-2015
Document Type
Poster Session
Department
Muskie School of Public Service
Advisor
Tania Strout
Second Advisor
Andrew Coburn
Keywords
Brain Computed Tomography, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Abstract
More than 1.3 million people seek emergency care following a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) each year. While most MTBI patients are safely discharged, a small proportion experience serious intracranial processes. The wide availability of computed tomography (CT) has generated a dramatic increase in the number of CTs performed to identify those patients with clinically important traumatic brain injury (ciTBI), generating expense and radiation exposure risks for patients. To address unwarranted variation in practice, we implemented an electronic best practice advisory (eBPA) based upon a validated clinical prediction rule that appears when emergency department (ED) clinicians order CT following MTBI.
Start Date
April 2015
Recommended Citation
Szlosek, Donald, "Utilization of an Electronic Best Practice Advisory Decreases Brain Computed Tomography in an Academic Emergency Department Setting" (2015). Thinking Matters Symposium Archive. 37.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/thinking_matters/37
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Commons, Neurology Commons, Other Medical Specialties Commons, Trauma Commons
