Computed Tomography Utilization in the Management of Children with Mild Head Trauma.

This study demonstrates the trend of computed tomography (CT) usage for children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the context of the initiation of the to promote the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rules at the acute care hospitals in New Jersey. We used administrative databases of 10 children's and 59 general hospitals to compare CT rates before 2014-2015, during 2016, and after the initiation of the program (2017-2019). The CT usage rates at baseline and the end of surveillance in children's hospitals (19.