Emergency department discharge instruction for mild traumatic brain injury: evaluation on readability, understandability, actionability and content

• Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Nurul 'Inayati, Nurumal, Mohd. Said, Awang, Mohamed Saufi, Mohd. Shah, Aida Nur Sharini
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: RT Nursing
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/82454/1/Emergency%20department%20discharge%20instruction%20for%20mild%20traumatic%20brain%20injury-%20Evaluation%20on%20readability%2C%20understandability%2C%20actionability%20and%20content.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/82454/7/82454_Emergency%20department%20discharge%20instruction%20for%20mild%20traumatic%20brain%20injury_Scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/82454/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2588994X20300579; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2020.06.005

Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) routinely provide discharge instructions due to a large num- ber of patients with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) being discharged home directly from ED. This study aims to evaluate the quality of available mTBI discharge instructions provided by EDs of M...