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The rates of secondary overtriage among patients with complicated mild traumatic brain injury (cmTBI) are unknown.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>OBJECTIVE<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To determine the rate of secondary overtriage among patients with cmTBI using the institutional trauma registry.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An observational study using retrospective analysis of 1447 hospitalizations including all consecutive patients with cmTBI between 2004 and 2013. Data on age, sex, race\/ethnicity, insurance status, GCS, Injury Severity Score (ISS), Trauma Injury Severity Score, transfer mode, overall length of stay (LOS), LOS within intensive care unit, and total charges were collected and analyzed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Overall, the rate of secondary overtriage among patients with cmTBI was 17.2%. These patients tended to be younger (median: 41 vs 60.5 yr;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a0.001), have a lower ISS (9 vs 16;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a0.001), and were more likely to be discharged home or leave against medical advice.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSION<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings provide evidence to the growing body of literature suggesting that not all patients with cmTBI need to be transferred to a tertiary care center. In our study, these transfers ultimately incurred a total cost of $13 294 ($1337 transfer cost) per patient.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/neuros\/nyz092","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,27]],"date-time":"2019-02-27T23:15:30Z","timestamp":1551309330000},"page":"374-382","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Secondary Overtriage in Patients with Complicated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Observational Study and Socioeconomic Analysis of 1447 Hospitalizations"],"prefix":"10.1227","volume":"86","author":[{"given":"Bradley A","family":"Dengler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sonia","family":"Plaza-W\u00fcthrich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Spine Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, 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