Pediatric Rehabilitation

Brain Injury

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Symposium

(607568) The CDC Guideline on mTBI in Children: Lessons Learned for Clinical Care and Research

Presenter(s)

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  Stacy Suskauer, MD

  Associate Professor
  Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, Maryland
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  Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, PhD

  Senior Health Scientist
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Atlanta, Georgia

Authors of the CDC Systematic Review and Guideline on mTBI among Children will discuss the process for Guideline development and resulting recommendations for both clinical care and future research in pediatric mTBI. Opportunities and challenges for evidence-based clinical care within rehabilitation settings will be highlighted. Strategies will be discussed for optimizing study design and dissemination of data for the purpose of increasing likelihood of inclusion in future iterations of evidence-based guidelines.

Learning Objectives:

• The learner will be able to describe the process by which the CDC Guideline was developed.
• The learner will be able to identify at least 3 ways in which rehabilitation settings can facilitate evidence-based care for children with mTBI.
• The learner will be able to describe a strategy for presenting data in order to increase likelihood of inclusion in future meta-analyses.