Delayed Diagnosis of Charcot Foot: A Systematic Review.

This study aims to examine the duration and rate of delayed diagnosis in Charcot foot. We systematically reviewed articles published in Medline, SCOPUS, and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature to identify articles discussing delayed or misdiagnosis of Charcot foot. Random-effects models were generated to determine the average time from symptom onset to correct diagnosis (diagnostic delay duration) and proportion of patients misdiagnosed prior to being correctly diagnosed (delayed diagnosis rate).

Predicting in-hospital mortality after traumatic brain injury: External validation of CRASH-basic and IMPACT-core in the national trauma data bank.

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) prognostic prediction models offer value to individualized treatment planning, systematic outcome assessments and clinical research design but require continuous external validation to ensure generalizability to different settings. The Corticosteroid Randomization After Significant Head Injury (CRASH) and International Mission on Prognosis and Analysis on Clinical Trials in TBI (IMPACT) models are widely available but lack robust assessments of performance in a current national sample of patients. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of the CRASH-Basic and IMPACT-Core models in predicting in-hospital mortality using a nationwide retrospective cohort from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).