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ReviewJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2022

Racial and Ethnic Disparities Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury Across the Continuum of Care: a Narrative Review and Directions for Future Research.

Altaf Saadi, Sarah Bannon, Eric Watson, Ana-Maria Vranceanu

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Review in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Racial disparities in palliative care among hospitalized older adults with traumatic brain injury.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  7. Outpatient Follow-up After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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  12. Effect of race on procedural and clinical outcomes in middle meningeal artery embolization for primary and adjunctive treatment of chronic subdural hematoma.Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Altaf SaadiDepartment of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Cambridge St, Suite 2000, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. asaadi@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7522-6942
Sarah BannonHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Eric WatsonDepartment of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Ana-Maria VranceanuHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is a growing body of evidence on racial and ethnic disparities within traumatic brain injury (TBI) care. The aim of this paper was to conduct a narrative review of the literature, demonstrating how racial and ethnic disparities manifest across the full spectrum of the TBI experience in civilian populations: injury, acute care and diagnosis, post-TBI recovery and adjustment, and long-term outcomes.

methodsWe searched five electronic databases (Scopus, APA PsychNet, PubMed/MEDLINE, and Google Scholar) using the search terms traumatic brain injury, head trauma, concussion, health disparities, ethnic minority, racial minority, race ethnicity, racial ethnic, prevalence, incidence, diagnosis, rehabilitation, recovery, and outcomes. Boolean search modifiers AND, NOT, and OR were used to produce relevant results. Additional resources were included by the authors, as deemed relevant to the investigation.

resultsOur narrative review of 39 articles elucidated numerous ways in which racial and ethnic disparities span the TBI continuum of care, including acute care and diagnosis, post-TBI recovery and adjustment, and long-term outcomes.

conclusionsUnderstanding racial and ethnic disparities is a first step in ensuring equitable care for all individuals with TBI, including raising awareness among clinicians and guiding the development of tailored interventions for racial and ethnic minority populations.

Indexed as

Brain Injuries, TraumaticEthnicityContinuity of Patient CareHumansMinority GroupsRacial/ethnic disparitiesRehabilitationTraumatic brain injury

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PMID33733427
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