Validation Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Case-Identifying Algorithms in French Emergency Departments: High Performance in Children but Limited in Adults
Louis-Marie Paget, Fleur Lorton, Cécile Forgeot, Nathalie Beltzer, Anne Gallay · 2025
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Louis-Marie Paget and four co-authors published a check-up study in twenty twenty-five on how well code-based rules spot mild head injury in French emergency rooms. France has no dedicated watch system for these injuries. A large ER data network could fill the gap, if its diagnosis codes can be trusted.
The team read over five thousand charts by hand and scored each rule against the charts. Rules worked well in children but fell short in adults, and none met the bar set for a watch system on its own. Scores shifted with age and other traits of the patients. The authors show both the promise of the data and the work still needed before it can count cases with care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Louis-Marie Paget, Fleur Lorton, Cécile Forgeot, Nathalie Beltzer, Anne Gallay |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |