Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Drs Crichton, Anderson, and Babl, Mr Oakley, and Mss Greenham and Delzoppo); Victorian Peadiatric Rehabilitation Service, Monash Children's, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Dr Crichton); Department of Psychology (Dr Anderson) and School of Psychological Sciences (Dr Crichton and Ms Greenham), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Peadiatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Dr Babl and Mr Oakley); Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Mr Oakley, Dr Babl, and Ms Delzoppo); Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Dr Beauchamp); Research Center, Ste-Justine Hospital (HSJ), Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Dr Beauchamp) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Program (Drs Hutchison and Guerguerian), The Hospital for Sick Children (HSK), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Drs Hutchison, Guerguerian, and Boutis); and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Drs Hutchison and Boutis).
Corresponding Author: Alison Crichton, DPsych, Critical Care and Neurosciences Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, 50 Flemington Rd, Parkville 3052, Australia ([email protected]).
Members of the Biomarker and Quality of Life in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury group, by site: HSK: Jamie Hutchison, Anne-Marie Guerguerian, Kathy Boutis, Martin Post, Sumaira Hussain, Judith Van Huyse, Amy Wilkinson, Helena Frndova; RCH: Vicki Anderson, Alison Crichton, Carmel Delzoppo, Mardee Greenham, Franz E. Babl, Warwick Butt; HSJ: Miriam Beauchamp, Mariana Dumitrascu, Cindy Beaudoin, Catherine Farrell, Jocelyn Gravel, Charlotte Gagner.This work is supported by a jointly awarded grant from The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, Toronto, Canada, and The Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative, Melbourne, Australia (Vicki Anderson and Jamie Hutchison, awarded 2011); a Moving Ahead Seed Grant (Alison Crichton, awarded 2012); a National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship, Canberra, Australia (Alison Crichton, awarded 2014, GNT 1075048); a Neurosciences Victoria Brain and Mind Scholarship, Melbourne, Australia (Alison Crichton, awarded 2012); the Victorian Government's Infrastructure Support Program, Melbourne, Australia, and in part funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence Grant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Canberra, Australia. Franz E. Babl was in part funded by a Royal Children's Hospital Foundation grant.The authors acknowledge the participants of the Peadiatric Research Academic Initiative at HSK Emergency (PRAISE) for identifying and participating in enrolment of study patients at the Toronto site. The authors thank the parents and children for participating in this study. They also thank Brenton Ward, Carmel Delzoppo, and Franz E. Babl (RCH) for assistance in recruitment of participants at RCH.The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
