Disclosures: Christina Marie Case: Nothing to disclose

Objective: To assess the benefit of follow-up care with a physiatrist for mild brain injury patients following community discharge from level one trauma center.

Design: Descriptive study of retrospectively collected data.

Setting: Outpatient physiatry clinic.

Participants: 34 patients including 24 arrived to appointment and 10 no-shows.

Interventions: Not applicable

Main Outcome Measures: Descriptive statistics of arrived vs non-arrived patients, self-reported benefit of follow-up appointment via phone survey, and assumed benefit of follow-up visit using therapy referral, medication prescription, and subsequent appointment data

Results: The median age of arrived patients was 51 and non-arrived was 32.5 with no significant variation in gender or race. 66.67% of participants attended clinic at least one more time after initial specialist appointment, 87.5% were referred to therapy (i.e. occupational, physical, neuropsychology, or speech language), and 80% were prescribed medication. 84.60% of phone survey participants reported that they believed their mTBI follow-up appointment to be beneficial.

Conclusions: A standardized follow-up appointment with a physiatrist indicated benefit for the patients in the present study. Further interventions should be made to enhance patient appointment attendance.

Level of Evidence: Level IV

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