Remote follow-up technologies in traumatic brain injury: a scoping review

BG Smith, S Tumpa, O Mantle, CJ Whiffin… - Journal of …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
Motivations for outcome data collection in TBI are threefold: to improve patient outcomes, to …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of neurosurgical care in low-income countries

HK Weiss, RM Garcia, JA Omiye, D Vervoort… - World neurosurgery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective More than 5 billion individuals lack access to essential surgical care.
Neurosurgical care is especially limited in low-income countries (LICs). Studies describing …

Cohesion between research literature and health system level efforts to address global neurosurgical inequity: a scoping review

EI Ham, J Kim, US Kanmounye, JW Lartigue, S Gupta… - World Neurosurgery, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Research output on global neurosurgery (GNS) has exponentially increased in
recent years. As research efforts increase, we must first analyze how the current body of …

Estimated incidence and case fatality rate of traumatic brain injury among children (0–18 years) in Sub-Saharan Africa. A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Ackah, M Gazali Salifu, C Osei Yeboah - PLoS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries have reported on the
incidence and case fatality rate of children with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). However, there …

Neurotrauma clinicians' perspectives on the contextual challenges associated with traumatic brain injury follow up in low-income and middle-income countries: A …

BG Smith, CJ Whiffin, IN Esene, C Karekezi, T Bashford… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major global health issue, but low-and middle-
income countries (LMICs) face the greatest burden. Significant differences in neurotrauma …

Mapping global neurosurgery research collaboratives: a social network analysis of the 50 most cited global neurosurgery articles

US Kanmounye, LA Sebopelo, C Keke… - Neurosurgery …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Social network analysis of bibliometric data evaluates the relationships between the articles,
authors, and themes of a research niche. The network can be visualized as maps composed …

[HTML][HTML] A population-based study of global outcome after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents

M Olsen, A Vik, E Lien, K Schirmer-Mikalsen… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the global outcome longitudinally
over 5 years in children and adolescents surviving moderate to severe traumatic brain injury …

Survey of resources available to implement severe pediatric traumatic brain injury management guidelines in low and middle-income countries

G Wooldridge, A Hansmann, O Aziz, N O'Brien - Child's Nervous System, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide,
with a disproportionately high burden in low-middle income countries. Guideline …

Central nervous system tumors in Uganda: outcomes of surgical treatment and complications assessed through telephone survey

BW Kakusa, LW Xu, SD Vaca, J Nalwanga… - World Neurosurgery, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Uganda has one of the largest unmet neurosurgical needs in the world, but has
seen major improvements in neurosurgery—largely centered at Mulago National Referral …

Long-term follow-up of neurosurgical outcomes for adult patients in Uganda with traumatic brain injury

MC Jin, B Kakusa, S Ku, SD Vaca, LW Xu… - Journal of …, 2020 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in
Uganda and other low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Due to the difficulty of long …