Prognosis for mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

By L. Carroll, J. Cassidy, P. Peloso, J. Borg, H. von Holst, L. Holm, C. Paniak, M. Pépin. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2004

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We searched the literature on the epidemiology, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and costs of mild traumatic brain injury. Of 428 studies related to prognosis after mild traumatic brain injury, 120 (28%) were accepted after critical review. These comprise our best-evidence synthesis on prognosis after mild traumatic brain injury. There was consistent and methodologically sound evidence that children's prognosis after mild traumatic brain injury is good, with quick resolution of symptoms and little evidence of residual cognitive, behavioural or academic deficits. For adults, cognitive deficits and symptoms are common in the acute stage, and the majority of studies report recovery for most within 3-12 months. Where symptoms persist, compensation/litigation is a factor, but there is little consistent evidence for other predictors. The literature on this area is of varying quality and causal inferences are often mistakenly drawn from cross-sectional studies.

Subfields: Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, Neurology

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1. J. Cassidy
2. L. Carroll
3. P. Peloso
4. Ofer Pasternak
5. L. Holm
6. Martha E Shenton
7. Aaron I. Schneiderman
8. J. Borg

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding sequelae of injury mechanisms and mild traumatic brain injury incurred during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: persistent postconcussive symptoms and posttraumatic stress disorder. (2008, background): “Most civilians with mild TBI recover completely within 3–6 months, but some develop persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms, often labeled postconcussive syndrome (7).”
• A review of magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging findings in mild traumatic brain injury (2012, background): “…Psychogenesis; Miserable Minority Introduction The Scope of the Problem More than 1.7 million people each year in the United States experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI), with 75 to 85% of these injuries categorized as mild (mTBI; CDC 2010; Faul et al., 2010; Bazarian et al., 2006).”
• Incidence, risk factors and prevention of mild traumatic brain injury: results of the WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2004, methodology): “In order better to delineate the strength of the evidence on risk factors for MTBI, we have adapted a methodology that has been used to rank the hierarchy of evidence of prognostic factors in breast cancer, whiplash injury and MTBI (7, 9, 10).”