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<\/a>A few months ago, I wrote a short article describing why emergency rooms do such a bad job at diagnosing concussions\/brain injuries: The emergency room didn’t say anything about a concussion. Does that mean I don’t have a brain injury?<\/a><\/p>\nRecently,\u00a0 I came across a study that really quantifies the problem I discussed.<\/p>\n
The study, primarily led by several doctors from the University of Washington, was laid out in an article entitled Accuracy of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury<\/a> Diagnosis<\/strong>, which was published in the August 2008 issue of the Archives of Physical Medical Rehabilitation<\/em>.<\/p>\n The article starts by noting:<\/p>\n Accurate identification and diagnosis of a mild TBI is the first step toward providing clinical care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Unfortunately, despite the accurate diagnosis of a brain injury being so important, the study found that emergency rooms are not very good at making the diagnoses.<\/p>\n The study looked at 197 patients who had been to emergency rooms.\u00a0 They looked at medical (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago, I wrote a short article describing why emergency rooms do such a bad job at diagnosing concussions\/brain injuries: The emergency room didn’t say anything about a concussion. Does that mean I don’t have a brain injury?…<\/span><\/p>\n\n