Refinement of a Preliminary Case Definition for Use in Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Current methods used to measure incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) underestimate its true public health burden. The use of self-report surveys may be an approach to improve these estimates. An important step in public health surveillance is to define a public health problem using a case definition. The purpose of this article is to outline the process that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undertook to refine a TBI case definition to be used in surveillance using a self-report survey.

Setting

Survey.

Participants

A total of 10 030 adults participated via a random digit-dial telephone survey from September 2018 to September 2019.

Main measures

Respondents were asked whether they had sustained a hit to the head in the preceding 12 mo

SUBMITTER: Daugherty J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10965368 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar-Apr 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature