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Validation of the PECARN Clinical Decision Rule for Children With Minor Head Trauma

NCT02752711 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1499

Last updated 2016-05-02

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Summary

To date, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying children who are at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after minor head trauma has not been validated prospectively in an independent population. Our goal was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the PECARN clinical decision rule in a French pediatric population in multiple clinical settings.

Conditions

  • Head Injury

Interventions

PROCEDURE

the PECARN clinical decision rule

the PECARN clinical decision rule for the detection of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries in children with minor head trauma

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nantes University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fleur LORTON, MD · Nantes University Hospital

Eligibility

Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-31
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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