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Letter to the Editor
Future inpatient management of patients with minor head injuries
  1. G Mccarthy,
  2. G Quin
  1. Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Gwent Hospital, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, Cardiff Road, Newport NP9 2UB

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.17.2.153

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      Editor,—We read, with interest, the letter from Pau and Buxton, regarding the need for neurosurgical referral of patients with an admitting diagnosis of minor head injury.1 We agree that these patients are a low risk group. We performed an audit of patients admitted to our observation ward with the primary diagnosis of minor head injury. From October 1997 to July 1999, 668 such patients were admitted under our care. Of these patients, only two were subsequently transferred to the regional neurosurgical unit after the …

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