@article{ref1,
title="Burden of pediatric traumatic brain injury beyond the emergency department: the untold story of the silent epidemic",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Surgeons",
year="2016",
author="Zogg, Cheryl K. and Haring, R. Sterling and Canner, Joseph K. and Alsulaim, Hatim A. and Scully, Rebecca and Wolf, Lindsey and Engineer, Lilly D. and Haider, Adil H. and Schneider, Eric B.",
volume="223",
number="4",
pages="S158-S158",
abstract="Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability among pediatric patients. Much of our understanding comes from work by the CDC, who conceptualized the &quot;silent epidemic&quot; as a pyramid: &quot;[unknown burden of outpatient disease]→emergency department (ED) visits→hospitalizations→death.&quot; The base and expected largest number of patients receive care as outpatients and have not been previously described. The objective of this study was to characterize this missing foundational-tier by estimating the burden of disease in those seeking care as outpatients, defining epidemiologic characteristics, and assessing for seasonal and temporal changes in presentation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-7515",
doi="10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.06.343",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.06.343"
}