%0 Journal Article
%T Global traumatic brain injury research enters a new era
%J Lancet neurology
%D 2020
%A Maegele, Marc
%V 19
%N 8
%P 637-639
%X Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a substantial medical and socioeconomic challenge worldwide, and reliable data on epidemiology, care pathways, and outcomes are still lacking because of heterogeneity in definitions, data collection, and reporting. The pan-European Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research (CENTER-TBI) study paves the way for large-scale collaborative studies on TBI across continents, using common definitions and harmonised data collection. In The Lancet Neurology, Guoyi Gao and colleagues report the results of the Chinese sister study--the CENTER-TBI China registry study including 13 138 patients from 52 centres. For the first time, clinical data of TBI in China have been collected in a format that is compatible with standardised common data elements and identical inclusion criteria. Despite limitations--eg, data collection restricted to patients in neurointensive care or preselected neurosurgical centres and to outcome at discharge only--the results can be considered as representative of how care for patients with TBI is delivered in China today. The study covered two-thirds of all Chinese provinces and had a median enrolment of 137 patients per centre...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 1474-4422
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30208-8