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doi: 10.1089/089771502753754037.

Mary Ellen Michel, Beth Ansell, Alex Baethmann, Anat Biegon, Michael B Bracken, M Ross Bullock, Sung C Choi, Guy L Clifton, Charles F Contant, William M Coplin, W Dalton Dietrich, Jamshid Ghajar, Sean M Grady, Robert G Grossman, Edward D Hall, William Heetderks, David A Hovda, Jack Jallo, Russell L Katz, Nachshon Knoller, Patrick M Kochanek, Andrew I Maas, Jeannine Majde, Donald W Marion, Anthony Marmarou, Lawrence F Marshall, Tracy K McIntosh, Emmy Miller, Noel Mohberg, J Paul Muizelaar, Lawrence H Pitts, Peter Quinn, Gad Riesenfeld, Claudia S Robertson, Kenneth I Strauss, Graham Teasdale, Nancy Temkin, Ronald Tuma, Charles Wade, Michael D Walker, Michael Weinrich, John Whyte, Jack Wilberger, A Byron Young, Lorraine Yurkewicz

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Clinical trials in head injury

Raj K Narayan et al. J Neurotrauma. 2002 May.

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major public health problem globally. In the United States the incidence of closed head injuries admitted to hospitals is conservatively estimated to be 200 per 100,000 population, and the incidence of penetrating head injury is estimated to be 12 per 100,000, the highest of any developed country in the world. This yields an approximate number of 500,000 new cases each year, a sizeable proportion of which demonstrate significant long-term disabilities. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of proven therapies for this disease. For a variety of reasons, clinical trials for this condition have been difficult to design and perform. Despite promising pre-clinical data, most of the trials that have been performed in recent years have failed to demonstrate any significant improvement in outcomes. The reasons for these failures have not always been apparent and any insights gained were not always shared. It was therefore feared that we were running the risk of repeating our mistakes. Recognizing the importance of TBI, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) sponsored a workshop that brought together experts from clinical, research, and pharmaceutical backgrounds. This workshop proved to be very informative and yielded many insights into previous and future TBI trials. This paper is an attempt to summarize the key points made at the workshop. It is hoped that these lessons will enhance the planning and design of future efforts in this important field of research.

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Glasgow Outcome Scale scores at 6 months postinjury in patients <46 years of age and admission temperature ≤35°C.

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