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- Published on: 15 August 2016
- Published on: 15 August 2016
- Published on: 15 August 2016In response to the e-letter "An interesting study of the wrong cohort"Show More
Many thanks for your interest in our study.
We agree that as a retrospective study that compares head injured patients presenting within and after 24 hours of injury that have undergone CT imaging our study does have limitations. However, there are currently few data to guide clinicians in this area. We found only 2 other retrospective cohort studies and an abstract that assessed such patients in a recently pu...
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None declared. - Published on: 15 August 2016An interesting study of the wrong cohortShow More
I thank the authors for highlighting an ongoing concern I have with NICE head injury guidance - namely that the guidance is based on studies of acute head injuries presenting soon after injury and doesn't take delayed presentations into account. However my concern would be the reverse of their own as I feel if we adhered to NICE guidance in patients presenting after 24 hours we would be performing large numbers of unnece...
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