Useless.
What the hell good does predicting failure to recover do for survivors? Will you actually just solve stroke? 100% rehab recovery protocols. That's what survivors want, not this lazy crapola of prediction shit. I'd have all of you, including your mentors and senior researchers fired for totally missing the point of stroke research. 100% RECOVERY PROTOCOLS!
The Prognostic Utility of Electroencephalography in Stroke Recovery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Abstract
Background
Improved ability to predict patient recovery would guide post-stroke care by helping clinicians personalize treatment and maximize outcomes. Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a direct measure of the functional neuroelectric activity in the brain that forms the basis for neuroplasticity and recovery, and thus may increase prognostic ability.
Objective
To examine evidence for the prognostic utility of EEG in stroke recovery via systematic review/meta-analysis.
Methods
Peer-reviewed journal articles that examined the relationship between EEG and subsequent clinical outcome(s) in stroke were searched using electronic databases. Two independent researchers extracted data for synthesis. Linear meta-regressions were performed across subsets of papers with common outcome measures to quantify the association between EEG and outcome.
Results
75 papers were included. Association between EEG and clinical outcomes was seen not only early post-stroke, but more than 6 months post-stroke. The most studied prognostic potential of EEG was in predicting independence and stroke severity in the standard acute stroke care setting. The meta-analysis showed that EEG was associated with subsequent clinical outcomes measured by the Modified Rankin Scale, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, and Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Assessment (r = .72, .70, and .53 from 8, 13, and 12 papers, respectively). EEG improved prognostic abilities beyond prediction afforded by standard clinical assessments. However, the EEG variables examined were highly variable across studies and did not converge.
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