title: Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Positional Plagiocephaly: Executive Summary.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Positional plagiocephaly is a common problem seen by pediatricians, pediatric neurologists, and pediatric neurosurgeons.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To create evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of pediatric positional plagiocephaly.
  
  
  METHODS
  This guideline was prepared by the Plagiocephaly Guideline Task Force, a multidisciplinary team made up of physician volunteers (clinical experts), medical librarians, and clinical guidelines specialists. The task force conducted a series of systematic literature searches of PubMed and the Cochrane Library, according to standard protocols for each topic addressed in subsequent chapters of this guideline.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The systematic literature searches returned 396 abstracts relative to the 4 main topics addressed in this guideline. The results were analyzed and are described in detail in each subsequent chapter included in this guideline.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Evidence-based guidelines for the management of infants with positional plagiocephaly will help practitioners manage this common disorder. The full guidelines documents can be located at https://www.cns.org/guidelines/guidelines-management-patients-positional-plagiocephaly.
authors.affiliation: *Kids Specialty Center, Women's & Children's Hospital, Lafayette, Louisiana; ‡Department of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; §Goryeb Children's Hospital of Atlantic Health Systems, Morristown, New Jersey; ¶Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; ‖Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; #Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey; **Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; ‡‡Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Florida Health Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida; §§Division of Neurosurgery, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont; ¶¶St. Louis Cleft-Craniofacial Center, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital at Saint Louis University, Division of Plastic Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; ‖‖Department of Neurosurgery, Palmetto Health University of South Carolina Medical Group, Columbia, South Carolina; ##Guidelines Department, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Schaumburg, Illinois; ***Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; ‡‡‡Advocate Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
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mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000458:organization & administration; D049068:Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic / Q000628:therapy*