Estimation of post-traumatic amnesia in emergency department attendees presenting with head injury

Objectives: To explore whether a semi–structured post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) assessment interview (PTA-I) provides a practicable but equivalent estimation of PTA in patients attending the Emergency Department (ED) with head injury (HI) compared to the established Westmead PTA Scale Revised (R-WPTAS...

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Main Author: Richards, Louise
Published: University of Glasgow 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538454