Improving identification and diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury with evidence: psychometric support for the acute concussion evaluation.
OBJECTIVE
A dearth of standardized assessment tools exists to properly assess and triage mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in primary care and acute care settings. This article presents evidence of appropriate psychometric properties for the Acute Concussion Evaluation (ACE), a new structured clinical interview.


METHODS
Parent informants of 354 patients, aged 3 to 18 years, with suspected mTBI completed the ACE via telephone interview.


METHODS
Acute Concussion Evaluation.


RESULTS
Evidence is presented for appropriate item-scale membership, internal consistency reliability as well as content, predictive, convergent/divergent, and construct validity of the ACE symptom checklist.


CONCLUSIONS
Overall, the ACE symptom checklist exhibits reasonably strong psychometric properties as an initial assessment tool for mTBI.
Gioia
Gerard A
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Children's National Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
Collins
Michael
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Isquith
Peter K
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D000293:Adolescent; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D012720:Severity of Illness Index