TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Repeat concussion and recovery time in a primary care pediatric office
JO  - Journal of child neurology
A1  - Taubman, Bruce
A1  - McHugh, Jennifer
A1  - Rosen, Florence
A1  - Elci, Okan U.
SP  - 1607
EP  - 1610
VL  - 31
IS  - 14
N2  - The authors enrolled 95 patients in a primary care office who presented with a concussion. Of these patients, 63% were sport concussions. The authors matched 90 of these patients to children in the authors' practice presenting for sports physicals or regular check-ups in the following demographics: age, participating in a particular sport, having attention-deficit disorder/attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, gender, and grade. The authors found the odds of recurrent concussions, in a primary care pediatric office, to be a ratio of 2.909 (95% confidence interval 1.228-7.287). Recovery time for repeat concussion versus an initial concussion was analyzed. Patients with a recurrent concussion after a year recovered an average of 12.0 days after injury versus 13.4 days for those with no previous concussion (NS). Patients with a recurrent concussion within a year recovered a mean of 6.27 (SD 1.29) days sooner than patients with no previous concussion (P <.0001). This unexpected finding is preliminary, and the authors encourage further research.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0883-0738
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0883073816667194
ID  - ref1
ER  -