External Validation of a Clinical Nomogram for Predicting Intracranial Hematoma Following Head Computed Tomography in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Abstract

Introduction Over-investigation of head computed tomography (CT) has been observed in children with TBI. Long-term effects from a head CT brain scan have been addressed and those should be balanced. A nomogram is a simple prediction tool that has been reported for predicting intracranial injuries following a head CT of the brain in TBI children in literature. This study aims to validate the performance of the nomogram using unseen data. Additionally, the secondary objective aims to estimate the net benefit of the nomogram by decision curve analysis (DCA).

Keywords

• External validation
• Nomogram
• intracranial hematoma
• pediatric traumatic brain injury
• head injury
• validação externa
• nomograma
• hematoma intracraniano
• lesão cerebral traumática pediátrica
• ferimento na cabeça