Health and Health Care Utilization Outcomes for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in new onset of comorbidities and limited studies suggest health care utilization following TBI may be high. Setting, Participants, Mean Measures, and Design: This study used 2018 and 2019 MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters data to examine differences in longitudinal health outcomes (health care utilization and new diagnoses) by various demographic factors (age, sex, U.S. region, intent/mechanism of injury, urbanicity, and insurance status) among individuals with and without a TBI in the year following an index health care encounter.

Results

Results show that within 1 year of the initial encounter, a higher percentage of patients with TBI versus without TBI had at least one outpatient visit (96.7% vs 86.1%), emergenc

SUBMITTER: Waltzman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12237604 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul-Aug 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature