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janhurst / unisa-tbi

Decision Support Tool for suspected Traumatic Brain Injuries
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Decide if we should include Injury Mechanisms 6 and 7 #10

Closed janhurst closed 4 years ago

janhurst commented 4 years ago

The study information suggests that "Children were excluded with trivial injury mechanisms defined by ground-level falls or walking or running into stationary objects..."

This is identified by Injury Mechanism variable of 6 or 7, as well as High Impact Injury Severity of 1 (Low).

Do we want to exclude Injury Mechanisms 6 and 7?

If so we may need to screen this in the UI rather than passing it to the model?

doughnuted commented 4 years ago

It seems unusual that the study design excluded them but then there are patients within there. Not having them in there reduces the generalizability, so would include if possible.

doughnuted commented 4 years ago

Sorry, to clarify, occassionally we see children with ciTBI following low velocity mechanisms. Whether it's actually what happened or not is difficult to say, but it's what they present with.