Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of long-term neurocognitive outcomes in paediatric traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Children who suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at risk of permanent brain damage and developmental deficits. Reports on neurodevelopmental outcomes in paediatric TBI suffer from small sample size and varying outcome definitions in the neurocognitive domains tested. This protocol describes a systematic review and meta-analysis of paediatric TBI in the following key neurocognitive domains: executive function, perceptual-motor function, language, learning and memory, social cognition and complex attention.

Methods

A comprehensive search comprising studies from Medline, Cochrane, Embase and PsycINFO published from 1988 to 2019 will be conducted. We will include studies on children ≤18 years old who suffer from mild, moderate and severe TBI as determined b

SUBMITTER: Looi DSH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304810 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature