Behavioral Clinical Trials in Moderate to Severe Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Challenges, Potential Solutions, and Lessons Learned.

WHAT IT FOUND

This commentary discusses the logistical and scientific hurdles of running behavioral trials for children with traumatic brain injury.

It identifies problems like recruitment difficulties and insensitive outcome measures. It reports no new clinical outcomes or treatment efficacy.

What this paper is

This is a commentary describing the challenges of conducting randomized clinical trials for behavioral interventions in children with traumatic brain injury. It outlines issues with recruitment, outcome measures, and control groups based on the authors' experiences, but it reports no new patient data, outcomes, or efficacy findings, so there is nothing here to change clinical practice on.

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