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A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to develop a risk stratification model to predict the presence of a potentially more sinister injury in patients exposed to a whiplash trauma. METHODS: The study base comprised of 3,115 residents who first sought healthcare contact within one week after being exposed to a whip...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31086405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216694 |
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author | Tenenbaum, Artur Nordeman, Lena Sunnerhagen, Katharina S. Gunnarsson, Ronny |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to develop a risk stratification model to predict the presence of a potentially more sinister injury in patients exposed to a whiplash trauma. METHODS: The study base comprised of 3,115 residents who first sought healthcare contact within one week after being exposed to a whiplash trauma between 1999–2008, from within a defined geographical area, Skaraborg County in south-western Sweden. Information about gender, age, time elapsed prior to seeking care, type of health care contact, and hospitalisation was retrieved. Seventeen potential risk factors were identified and evaluated using multivariable logistic regression. RESULTS: Of 3,115 patients, 215 (6.9%) required hospital admission so theoretically 93% could have been initially assessed by primary health care. However, only 46% had their first contact in primary health care. All patients had symptoms resulting in a diagnosis of whiplash injury. Four risk factors were found to be associated with hospital admission: commotio cerebri (OR 31, 19–51), fracture / luxation (OR 11, 5.1–22), serious injury (OR 41, 8.0–210), and the patient sought care during the same day as the trauma (OR 5.9, 3.7–9.5). These four risk factors explained 27% of the variation for hospital admission and the area under curve (AUC) was 0.77 (0.74–0.80). Ninety-six percent of patients (2,985) had only a whiplash injury with no other injury. These could be split into those attending health care the same day as the trauma, 1,737 (56%) with a 7.1% risk for hospital admission, and those attending health care later, 1,248 (40%) with a 1.3% risk for hospital admission. CONCLUSION: Patients with no signs of commotio cerebri, no fracture/luxation injury, no serious injury, comprising 96% of all patients exposed to a whiplash trauma can initially be referred to primary health care for initial assessment. However, those contacting the health care the same day as the trauma should be referred to a hospital for evaluation if they can’t get an appointment with a general practitioner the same day. |
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spelling | pubmed-65166612019-05-31 A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma Tenenbaum, Artur Nordeman, Lena Sunnerhagen, Katharina S. Gunnarsson, Ronny PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to develop a risk stratification model to predict the presence of a potentially more sinister injury in patients exposed to a whiplash trauma. METHODS: The study base comprised of 3,115 residents who first sought healthcare contact within one week after being exposed to a whiplash trauma between 1999–2008, from within a defined geographical area, Skaraborg County in south-western Sweden. Information about gender, age, time elapsed prior to seeking care, type of health care contact, and hospitalisation was retrieved. Seventeen potential risk factors were identified and evaluated using multivariable logistic regression. RESULTS: Of 3,115 patients, 215 (6.9%) required hospital admission so theoretically 93% could have been initially assessed by primary health care. However, only 46% had their first contact in primary health care. All patients had symptoms resulting in a diagnosis of whiplash injury. Four risk factors were found to be associated with hospital admission: commotio cerebri (OR 31, 19–51), fracture / luxation (OR 11, 5.1–22), serious injury (OR 41, 8.0–210), and the patient sought care during the same day as the trauma (OR 5.9, 3.7–9.5). These four risk factors explained 27% of the variation for hospital admission and the area under curve (AUC) was 0.77 (0.74–0.80). Ninety-six percent of patients (2,985) had only a whiplash injury with no other injury. These could be split into those attending health care the same day as the trauma, 1,737 (56%) with a 7.1% risk for hospital admission, and those attending health care later, 1,248 (40%) with a 1.3% risk for hospital admission. CONCLUSION: Patients with no signs of commotio cerebri, no fracture/luxation injury, no serious injury, comprising 96% of all patients exposed to a whiplash trauma can initially be referred to primary health care for initial assessment. However, those contacting the health care the same day as the trauma should be referred to a hospital for evaluation if they can’t get an appointment with a general practitioner the same day. Public Library of Science 2019-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6516661/ /pubmed/31086405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216694 Text en © 2019 Tenenbaum et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tenenbaum, Artur Nordeman, Lena Sunnerhagen, Katharina S. Gunnarsson, Ronny A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title | A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title_full | A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title_fullStr | A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title_full_unstemmed | A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title_short | A risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
title_sort | risk stratification tool for prehospital triage of patients exposed to a whiplash trauma |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31086405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216694 |
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