Figure 1.
Selection process for studies included in the meta-analysis.
Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with TBI.
Table 2.
Quality of RCTs accessed by Cochrane risk of bias assessment.
Figure 2.
Efficacy of ICP monitoring in the prevention of mortality.
According to Chesnut 2012, the clinical outcomes were evaluated by GOSE at 6 months. Although 157 patients and 167 patients in the ICP(+) group and ICP(−) group respectively, actually only 144 patients in ICP(+) group and 153 patients in ICP(−) group had been assessed at 6 months. ICP: intracranial pressure; GOSE: the extended glasgow outcome scale.
Table 3.
Sensitivity analyses based on various criteria for mortality.
Figure 3.
Efficacy of ICP monitoring in the prevention of unfavourable outcome, adverse events and hospital stay.
ICP: intracranial pressure.
Table 4.
Outcomes from RCTs and cohort studies respectively.
Figure 4.
Publication bias was assessed by inspection of funnel plots for mortality.
Dots was basically symmetrical distribution on both sides of dashed line, indicating that there was no obvious evidence of significant publication bias.