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ReviewSpinal cord2019

Global mapping for the epidemiology of paediatric spinal cord damage: towards a living data repository.

Peter Wayne New, Bonsan Bonne Lee, Raymond Cripps, Lawrence C Vogel, Adam Scheinberg, Mary-Clare Waugh

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Review in Spinal cord, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Epidemiology of pediatric spinal trauma with neurological deficits in Catalonia: a 36-year experience.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024
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  19. Acute Myelopathy in Childhood.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  20. A Narrative Review of Pediatric Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Dysfunction.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Peter Wayne NewSpinal Rehabilitation Service, Caulfield Hospital, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. p.new@alfred.org.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5669-3286
Bonsan Bonne LeePrince of Wales Spinal Medicine Department, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Raymond CrippsFlinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Research Centre for Injury Studies, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Lawrence C VogelShriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6325-441X
Adam ScheinbergRoyal Children's Hospital, Paediatric Rehabilitation Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9550-0803
Mary-Clare WaughKids Rehab, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2627-9495

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

STUDY

designLiterature review.

objectivesGlobally map key paediatric spinal cord damage epidemiological measures and provide a framework for an ongoing repository of data.

settingWorldwide, initiative of ISCoS Prevention Committee.

methodsLiterature search of Medline (1946-March 2017) and Embase (1974-March 2017). Relevant articles in any language regarding children with spinal cord damage included. Stratification of data quality into Green/Yellow /Red 'zones' facilitated comparison between countries.

resultsA total of 862 abstracts were reviewed and data from 25 articles were included from 14 countries in 6 of the 21 Global Regions. Fourteen studies involved paediatric traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and seven were regarding non-traumatic spinal cord dysfunction (SCDys). An additional four articles provided both paediatric SCI and SCDys data. The median SCI incidence rates in Global Regions were: Asia, East 5.4/million population/year; Australasia 9.9/million population/year; Western Europe 3.3/million population/year and North America, High Income 13.2 million population/year. The median SCDys incidence rates in Global Regions were: Australasia 6.5/million population/year; Western Europe 6.2/million population/year and North America, High Income 2.1/million population/year. SCI was mostly due to land transport (46-74%), falls (12-35%) and sport/recreation (10-25%) and SCDys was mostly caused by tumours (30-63%) and inflammatory/autoimmune causes (28-35%).

conclusionsThere is a scarcity of quality epidemiology studies of paediatric SCD regarding incidence, prevalence, aetiology and survival. Recent ISCoS frameworks provide guidance for researchers to use established classification of SCDys and age group cut-off levels in future studies, thereby improving the ability to compare and combine data.

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ChildDatabases, FactualHumansInformation DisseminationSpinal Cord Injuries

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PMID30552413

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