Incidence, risk factors and prevention of mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

By J. Cassidy, L. Carroll, P. Peloso, J. Borg, H. von Holst, L. Holm, J. Kraus, V. Coronado. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2004

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OBJECTIVE We undertook a best-evidence synthesis on the incidence, risk factors and prevention of mild traumatic brain injury. METHODS Medline, Cinahl, PsycINFO and Embase were searched for relevant articles. After screening 38,806 abstracts, we critically reviewed 169 studies on incidence, risk and prevention, and accepted 121 (72%). RESULTS The accepted articles show that 70-90% of all treated brain injuries are mild, and the incidence of hospital-treated patients with mild traumatic brain injury is about 100-300/100,000 population. However, much mild traumatic brain injury is not treated at hospitals, and the true population-based rate is probably above 600/100,000. Mild traumatic brain injury is more common in males and in teenagers and young adults. Falls and motor-vehicle collisions are common causes. CONCLUSION Strong evidence supports helmet use to prevent mild traumatic brain injury in motorcyclists and bicyclists. The mild traumatic brain injury literature is of varying quality, and the studies are very heterogeneous. Nevertheless, there is evidence that mild traumatic brain injury is an important public health problem, but we need more high-quality research into this area.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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• Prognosis for mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2004, background): “ca INTRODUCTION The incidence of hospital-treated mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) is high, at 100–300/100,000 population per year, making this a public health problem, disproportionately among teenagers and young adults (1).”
• Traumatic brain injuries (2016, background): “develop or escape CTE pathology and/or symptoms; (2) why some patients develop PCS and whether this is related to”
• RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE DIGIT CANCELLATION TEST, A BRIEF SCREEN OF ATTENTION (2012, neutral): “All TBI participants were diagnosed as TBI at their admission phases, however, it is reasonable that they are mostly mild TBI (mTBI) by the recent diagnostic classification (Cassidy et al., 2004).”
• The Burden and Determinants of Neck Pain in the General Population: Results of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000–2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders (2008, methodology): “Studies of risk factors—cohort studies and case-control studies—were further classified using a methodology proposed for prognostic factors, but also previously adapted for studies of risk.(8,9) This classification distinguishes 3 types of study:”
• White matter integrity and cognition in chronic traumatic brain injury: a diffusion tensor imaging study. (2007, background): “…the accident (e.g. feeling dazed, disoriented or confused) and (4) focal neurological deficit(s) that may or may not be transient (Medicine, 1993; Cassidy et al., 2004), For this study, subjects were categorized as moderate or greater severity TBI if the LOC was greater than 30min and/or the GCS…”