title: [What can we expect of Collaborative Review Groups of Cochrane Collaboration in neuropaediatrics?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cochrane Collaboration (CC) contains detailed, critical and up-to-date systematic reviews (SR) of the best scientific evidence available.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the bibliometric characteristics of the SR related to paediatric neurology published in the 50 Collaborative Review Groups (CRG) of the CC.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bibliometric analysis of the Database of Systematic Reviews in Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2005 (n = 2.231 SR). The variables recorded were: number of SR and protocols in any CRG, authors and clusters of secondary research, dates (late review and update), type of study, critical review of the SR and conclusions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nine published SR about neuropaediatrics: the Epilepsy Group (24 SR), the Neuromuscular Disease Group (16), the Neonatal Group (16), the Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group (10), the Pain, Palliative Care and Supportive Care Group (4), the Movement Disorders Group (3), the Injuries Group (3), the Infectious Disease Group (3) and the Acute Respiratory Infections Group (2). The three main thematic areas were treatment of epilepsy (pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic), neonatal neurology (mainly intraventricular haemorrhage and perinatal asphyxia) and miscellanea (autism spectrum disorder, headache, cerebral palsy, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Bell's palsy and bacterial meningitis). All the SR were about treatment interventions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Paediatric neurology SR are infrequent (3.6% of the 2.231 SR published in CC), and helps an evidence-based decision-making in a few areas: pharmacologic treatment of epilepsy, management of intraventricular haemorrhage of preterm infants and bacterial meningitis. Many therapies in paediatric neurology persist with no supporting evidence, and we detected no SR about important neurological issues in childhood as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation and hypotonia.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario San Juan, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain. gonzalez_jav@gva.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González de Dios
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Balaguer-Santamaría
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D009462:Neurology; D010372:Pediatrics; D012196:Review Literature as Topic