Promoting early treatment for mild traumatic brain injury in primary care with a guideline implementation tool: a pilot cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

New clinical practice guidelines for the management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) emphasise that family physicians should proactively screen and initiate treatment for depression/anxiety, insomnia and headaches. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of delivering an implementation intervention to family physicians.

Design

Pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Specialty outpatient clinic (recruitment) and primary care (implementation).

Participants

114 primary care clinics were randomised. These clinics were associated with 137 unique family physicians caring for 148 adult patients who sustained an mTBI within the previous 3 months and were seeking care for persistent symptoms.

Interventions

Patients completed self-r

SUBMITTER: Silverberg ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature