Friday, July 1, 2011

Evidence-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation: Updated Review of the Literature From 2003 Through 2008


Abstract 

Cicerone KD, Langenbahn DM, Braden C, Malec JF, Kalmar K, Fraas M, Felicetti T, Laatsch L, Harley JP, Bergquist T, Azulay J, Cantor J, Ashman T. Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: updated review of the literature from 2003 through 2008.

Objective

To update our clinical recommendations for cognitive rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, based on a systematic review of the literature from 2003 through 2008.

Data Sources

PubMed and Infotrieve literature searches were conducted using the terms attentionawarenesscognitivecommunication,executivelanguagememoryperceptionproblem solving, and/or reasoning combined with each of the following terms:rehabilitationremediation, and training for articles published between 2003 and 2008. The task force initially identified citations for 198 published articles.

Study Selection

One hundred forty-one articles were selected for inclusion after our initial screening. Twenty-nine studies were excluded after further detailed review. Excluded articles included 4 descriptive studies without data, 6 nontreatment studies, 7 experimental manipulations, 6 reviews, 1 single case study not related to TBI or stroke, 2 articles where the intervention was provided to caretakers, 1 article redacted by the journal, and 2 reanalyses of prior publications. We fully reviewed and evaluated 112 studies.

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