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Background  Executive function pertains to higher cognitive processes historically linked to frontal lobes. Several measures are available to screen for executive function; however, no gold standard exists. The difficulty in assessing executive function is the existence of its many subsets.

Objectives  To evaluate the psychometric properties of executive function measures and determine the most effective measure(s) through a systematic review of the literature.

Search strategy  The search strategy utilised a comprehensive literature review of articles written in the English language published from January 2003 to September 2009. The following electronic databases were searched: SCOPUS, PUBMED, Medline Ovid, PsychArticles and CINAHL Plus. Initial key words used were ‘executive function’, ‘measures’, ‘reliability’ and ‘validity’ followed by the addition of ‘traumatic brain injury’. The initial search elicited 226 …