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- Neil HeronPublished on: 6 July 2023
- Published on: 6 July 2023Primary and community care assessment of concussions
Dear Authors,
Great work on putting together the child SCOAT6 and this is a really helpful piece for the office sport medicine doctors. However, what about the community healthcare teams, eg General Practitioners, GPs, what tool should they be using? Particularly bearing in mind the time constraints of community health contacts, eg GP consults in the UK are most often limited to 10 minutes. What can we expect non-specialist sport medicine doctors to do to help make the concussion diagnosis and therefore initiate appropriate management promptly? Should we be making a childSCATgp?
More patients will be attending primary and community care facilities with concussion as the general knowledge around the diagnosis increases and with new policies and procedures identifying community resources to make the concussion diagnosis and management . Indeed, within the UK, there has recently been grassroots concussion protocols released and they advise that all concussions should be diagnosed by a healthcare practitioner. This will cause a number of patients, both children and adults. to present to community practitioners seeking a diagnosis and we therefore need a community tool to diagnose and manage concussions for the non-specialist healthcare practitioners. Time for a consensus meeting to discuss community, non-specialist concussion diagnosis and management?
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