Canada Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Common Data Elements Study (mTBI CDE)
The Canada Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Common Data Elements Study (mTBI CDE) is a national study looking at how children recover from concussions.
Our national interdisciplinary team of experts in concussion/ mild traumatic brain injury research includes trauma experts, neuro-psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, athletic therapists, pediatric neurosurgeons, emergentologists, neuroscientists and neurologists.
The study is funded by a $1.4 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Santé over five years starting in 2013. Dr. Isabelle Gagnon is the Principal Investigator of a team of 27 co-investigators who aim to standardize pediatric mTBI diagnostic and treatment language in an effort to improve the care of children with concussions from coast to coast. This cutting-edge study is part of a larger global TBI network termed InTBIR, or the International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research.
This Canadian study has six pilot sites across the country including:
- Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Network (Montreal, QC)
- CHU Sainte-Justine (Montreal, QC)
- CHUL / IRPDQ (Quebec,Quebec )
- McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)
- Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON)
- University of Victoria (Victoria, BC)