Short-term spinal cord stimulation (stSCS) significantly improves the likelihood of tracheal decannulation in brain injury patients with disorders of consciousness. In a retrospective study of 81 tracheotomized patients, those receiving stSCS had a decannulation rate of 50.0%, compared to 25.7% in the standard care group. The difference was statistically meaningful, indicating stSCS may be a useful neuromodulation strategy to help these patients breathe without a tracheostomy tube.
Breast cancer is now the most common cancer worldwide. Mindfulness-based interventions, such as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction, have been used in various delivery methods, including face-to-face and internet-delivered, to help patients with breast cancer reduce depression. No study has yet compared the effectiveness of all these types and deliveries. This protocol describes a planned systematic review and network meta-analysis to assess their effectiveness. The review will search seven electronic databases for randomized controlled trials from inception to December 2023. Two reviewers will assess risk of bias. The results will be published in peer-reviewed journals.