[PDF] Top 20 Systematic review of depression in mild traumatic brain injury: study protocol

... this systematic review are to (1) synthesize evidence on the clinical course of mTBI-related depression, (2) describe the factors that impact depression for individ- uals with mTBI, and (3) ... See full document

... our systematic review will include prospective and retrospective cohort studies, and randomized controlled ...a traumatic brain lesion (any severity) will be ...specific study have to ... See full document

... our study. If only the relative risk is reported in a selected study, we will transform the relative risk into an odds ra- tio using the method described by Deeks and Altman ...by study design (RCT, ... See full document

... This study was not externally ...Award, Brain Canada, and CIBC for a Brain Cancer Training Award, and the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation for the Jane Gillett Pediatric ABI ... See full document

... Animals with TBI may exhibit clinical signs similar to those with a multifocal neurological syndrome, as there may be lesions in various com- partments of the brain. These types of lesions can generate different ... See full document

... We acknowledge some limitations in our study. Firstly, we only included studies that explicitly combined at least two predictors, in doing so we could have missed some reports that used multivariable to analyze ... See full document

... We believe that this update of the WHO Task Force findings on prognosis after MTBI will significantly improve clinical and methodological understanding of recovery after MTBI and its associated factors. First, the ... See full document

... Volumetric brain changes are our primary outcome, as the neurodegenera- tive effects of TBI are often best observed and docu- mented using imaging that can visualize structural brain ...and injury ... See full document

... acquired brain injury as a result of an external impact or insult to the brain including a blow, bump, or a penetrating head injury that disrupts normal brain functioning, as a result ... See full document

... robust study designs or replicated ...the study design; even the most effective intervention will fail to influence practice development if its evidence base remains ...robust study design, larger ... See full document

... be randomly assigned to a control or an experimental group. The control group will receive a 6-week gradual sub-threshold physical activation (SPA) program. The ex- perimental group will receive a gradual SPA program ... See full document

... controls. TBI participants in the study by Iestwaarts et al. [36] were impaired on the verbal alternating fluency test (switching between two semantic categories) and National Adult Reading Test (pronunciation of ... See full document

... included study, DDAVP use was inde- pendently associated with an increased mortality ...this systematic review included patients with DI and did not adjust for this in the analyses ...the ... See full document

... Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a worldwide leading cause of mortality and disability. Among TBI complications, agitation is a frequent behavioural problem. Agitation causes potential ... See full document

... two systematic reviews focused on psychological treatments for mTBI ...first review identified eight studies published between 2004 and 2006, in addition to ten studies described in a previous article ... See full document

... Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability worldwide, particularly with increasing trauma survivability rates ...after traumatic brain injury (TBI), with a ... See full document

... and systematic reviews of observational studies (MOOSE) guidelines were followed in the design and implementation of this systematic review of the lit- ...in brain-injured ... See full document

... Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) is defined as a “low velocity injury that causes brain ‘shaking’ resulting in clinical symptoms, that are not necessarily related to a ... See full document

... Mild traumatic brain injury is a complex condition ...million Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) persons 75% of those are confidential as mild Traumatic ... See full document

... suggesting sodium homeostasis abnormality in human subjects with mTBI using a noninvasive method. Already discussed is the need to estimate cellular compartmental contributions to the TSC to further elucidate ionic ... See full document