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> From: Andrew Webster [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> It may be recommended but on what evidence? seeing an
> emergency physician
> with no real interest, or skills in long term head injury follow up is
The lack of evidence for routine minor head injury follow up is because
nobody is doing the studies because nobody is following up the patients.
We'd have to start doing it on a large scale before we could say with any
certainty that we shouldn't be doing it. Maybe the majority of EPs haven't
the interest or skills, but some do. Even if each hospital couldn't offer
it, you'd probably be able to get a couple of emergency physicians within
the region prepared to offer a regional minor head injuries follow up
service.
> going to be of no real benefit to the patient or the doctor,
Maybe not the patient; but for the doctor, plenty of scope for research
papers, discretionary points and medicolegal work.
Matt Dunn
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