Canadian
Traumatic Brain
Injury Research
Consortium

The Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium was created in December 2015 and was initially funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). To know more about our group, please click on the link “know more”.

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CTRC members
0 152
Projects
0 25
Institutions
0 68
Cities
0 22

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Many survivors suffer from concentration deficit, fatigue, depression and low resistance to effort. These symptoms affect their quality of life, their functional level and have a significant impact on primary health care resources utilisation

The majority of individuals recover in the initial 7-10 days following injury but in up to 30% of cases, symptoms may persist...

The lack of effective knowledge use by professionals in trauma care increases mortality, morbidity and associated costs. There is evidence of overuse of tests...

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