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Impact of early intervention on outcome following mild head injury in adults

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Professor A M Salazar;
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Keywords: mild head injury; mild traumatic brain injury; patient information

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In this issue, the paper "Impact of early intervention upon outcome following mild head injury in adults" by Ponsford and colleagues (pp 330–2)¹ describes a valuable study addressing an important current issue in public health. The authors have made a strong case for the early use of a relatively inexpensive written information booklet in the management of patients with mild head injury. These findings thus reinforce the notion that many elements of emergency room counselling, albeit important, are likely to be forgotten by a patient under stress and particularly in the context of a recent concussion. Clinicians too often underappreciate the therapeutic value of information to an otherwise intelligent patient in such circumstances.

As expected from prior studies, the purely cognitive and neurological signs and symptoms related to mild head injury are largely recovering by three months after the injury, although stress related symptoms often persist in . . . [Full text of this article]