Quantifying Brain Injury on Computed Tomography in Hospitalized Children (QBIct)

Quantifying Brain Injury on Computed Tomography in Hospitalized Children: a Prospective Trial

Lay Summary:

To evaluate a novel early diagnostic tool for hospitalized children with traumatic brain injury.

The Problem: Children who present with decreased level of consciousness after injury require urgent medical attention determined by the type and the severity of injury. Unfortunately, history and physical findings are often unreliable in the first hours after hospitalization, the period in which urgent management decisions must be made for their treatment.

The Solution: A promising tool developed for measuring detectable evidence of traumatic brain injury on routine brain scans. The tool combines features invisible to the human eye but detectable by computer software with expert knowledge.This study will evaluate how well the tool can perform in a real health care setting. It is believed that it will greatly improve the efficacy and quality of care provided to children after traumatic brain injury.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Pediatric; Trauma, Brain

Detailed Description

To evaluate a novel early neuroimaging diagnostic tool for hospitalized children with traumatic brain injury.

This tool is used to detect evidence of traumatic brain injury on routine brain scans. The tool combines features invisible to the human eye but detectable by computer software with expert knowledge.This study will evaluate how well the tool can perform in a real health care setting. It is believed that it will greatly improve the efficacy and quality of care provided to children after traumatic brain injury.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 425

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 day to 17 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Hospitalized children with traumatic brain injury

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitalized with TBI
• Age: less than 18 years of age who undergoes routine head CT in the acute period with any severity of injury based on Glasgow Coma Scale score (3 to15).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non hospitalized
• Non traumatic brain injury

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To measure if QBIct predicts the development of new cerebral dysfunction measured on the Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended for Pediatrics score	GOSE for Pediatrics score is the reference standard for measuring traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcome. GOSE-P is a NINDS Common Data Element for functional outcome that rates patient status into one of eight categories: Dead, Vegetative State, Lower severe disability, Upper severe Disability, Lower moderate disability, Upper moderate Disability, Lower good recovery or Upper good Recovery. Minimum score = 1, Maximum score = 8 Level 1 = Dead Level 2 = Vegetative State Level 3 = Low Severe Disability Level 4 = Upper Severe Disability Level 5 = Lower Moderate Disability Level 6 = Upper Moderate Disability Level 7 = Low Good Recovery Level 8 = Upper Good Recovery	30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To determine if QBIct tool predicts secondary clinical outcomes	Clinical outcomes were defined as intracranial hypertension and/or, need for neurosurgical intervention and/or early mortality.	90 days
To determine if QBIct tool predicts recovery endpoints.	Endpoints were defined by global functional outcomes, mechanical ventilation days, and intensive care days, hospital days and/or home from school days. Global functional outcomes will be measured using Vineland-II. Vineland-II is a standardized psychological tool used to measure 4 major aspects of adaptive functioning: Communication, Daily Living Skills, Socialization and Motor Skills. It measures the personal and social skills of individuals from birth through adulthood. Because adaptive behavior refers to an individual's typical performance of the day-to-day activities required for personal and social sufficiency, these scales assess what a person actually does, rather than what he or she is able to do. In order to determine the level of an individual's adaptive behavior, someone who is familiar with that individual, such as a parent or caregiver, is asked to describe his activities. Those activities are then compared to those of ot	90 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
• Collaborators: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Anne-Marie Guerguerian, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• QBI CT Web Site

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 20, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 24, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 21, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): November 25, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): November 25, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 21, 2019
• Last Verified: November 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Wounds and Injuries; Craniocerebral Trauma; Trauma, Nervous System; Brain Injuries; Brain Injuries, Traumatic
• Other Study ID Numbers: REB1000050054

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No