Methodological issues and research recommendations for mild traumatic brain injury: the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

By L. Carroll, J. Cassidy, L. Holm, J. Kraus, V. Coronado. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2004

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The WHO Collaborating Centre for Neurotrauma Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury performed a comprehensive search and critical review of the literature published between 1980 and 2002 to assemble the best evidence on the epidemiology, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury. Of 743 relevant studies, 313 were accepted on scientific merit and comprise our best-evidence synthesis. The current literature on mild traumatic brain injury is of variable quality and we report the most common methodological flaws. We make recommendations for avoiding the shortcomings evident in much of the current literature and identify topic areas in urgent need of further research. This includes the need for large, well-designed studies to support evidence-based guidelines for emergency room triage of children with mild traumatic brain injury and to explore more fully the issue of prognosis after mild traumatic brain injury in the elderly population. We also advocate use of standard criteria for defining mild traumatic brain injury and propose a definition.

Subfields: Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, Neurology

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J. Cassidy
L. Carroll
P. Peloso
L. Holm
J. Borg
H. von Holst
J. Kraus
V. Coronado

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Incidence, risk factors and prevention of mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2004, background): “There is an urgent need for workable clinical and surveillance definitions of MTBI and subsequent studies to validate various methods of capturing cases (132).”
Prognosis for mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2004, background): “It should be noted that a number of experts consider the presence of focal brain lesions or depressed skull fracture to reflect a moderate, rather than a mild brain injury (104).”