Resources

American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics. Management of Minor Closed Head Injury in Children (AC9858), 1999. Available from URL: http://www.aap.org/policy/ac9858.html

American Academy of Neurology. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee, Practice Parameter: The Management of Concussion in Sports (summary statement), 1997. Available from URL: http://www.aan.com/professionals/practice/pdfs/gl0013.pdf  

Glascow Coma Scale (Adapted from Womack Army Medical Center, Internet version). Available from URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_toolkit/physicians/gcs.htm 

Gordon WA, et al. The Enigma of "Hidden" Traumatic Brain Injury, 1998.

Jagoda AS, Cantrill SV, Wears RL, Valadka A, Gallagher EJ, Gottesfeld SH, Pietrzak MP, Bolden J, Bruns JJ Jr, Zimmerman R. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting. Ann Emerg Med. August 2002;40:231-249.  Available from URL:  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_toolkit/jagoda/jagoda.htm


Kibby MY, Long CJ. Review: Minor head injury: attempts at clarifying the confusion, 1996. 

Kushner D. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, 1998. 

McCrea M, Kelly JP, Randolph C, Cisler R, Berger L. Immediate Neruocognitive Effects of Concussion, 2002. Available from URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_toolkit/mccrae/title.htm 

National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Rehabilitation of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury, 1998. Available from URL: http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/109/109_statement.htm

Thurman DJ, et al. Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999. Available from URL:  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_congress/tbi_congress.htm