Revista de neurologia
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Revista de neurologia · Apr 2005
[Neonatal neurology decision-making starting from systematic reviews of Cochrane Collaboration].
Cochrane Collaboration (CC) provides growing and readily accessible resource to help that decision-making care is based on detailed, critical, and current reviews of the best available evidence. There are many clinical questions for which there is no good evidence on which to base clinical practice. ⋯ At the moment, the neonatal neurology SR published in Neonatal CC are infrequent and almost half of them the reviewer's conclusions are insufficient for inferring probable effects in clinical practice. Many therapies in neonatal neurology persist without supportive evidence, and some common therapies may actually be harmful, and these are the conclusions found in SR about intraventricular haemorrhage. We detected no SR about important neuropediatric themes in neonatal period: hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, periventricular leukomalacia, neonatal seizures, hypotonia, etc.