Pediatricians' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors to Screening Children After Complicated Mild TBI: A Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand pediatricians' attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors about the care of children with complicated mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Participants

A total of 3500 pediatricians randomly selected from the American Medical Association Master File.

Design

It was a cross-sectional survey.

Main measures

A survey developed to assess pediatricians' attitudes toward following children with complicated mild TBI for cognitive and behavioral sequelae; their knowledge of TBI sequelae; and their usual evaluation and management of children after TBI.

Results

There were 576 (16.5%) completed responses. Most pediatricians (51%) see 1 or 2 patients with complicated mild TBI annually. Most do not think that pediatricians are the correct clinician group

SUBMITTER: Keenan HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432415 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov/Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature