Mortality and morbidity 15 years after hospital admission with mild head injury




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Summary: <p>Head injury is very common, and we know those admitted to hospital with a severe head injury have a high mortality rate in the proceeding year. However less is known about later mortality, and even less about late survival after mild head injury, which accounts for 95% of all head injuries.</p><p>Tom McMillan, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, MVLS, University of Glasgow, and colleagues, have followed up patients 15 years after admission with a mild head injury, and recently published the results in JNNP.</p><p>In this podcast, Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, asks him what they found.</p><p>Read the full paper:</p><p>Mortality and morbidity 15 years after hospital admission with mild head injury: a prospective case-controlled population study http://goo.gl/9aTU4Z</p>