Recovery over 6 months of medical decision-making capacity after traumatic brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate recovery of medical decision-making capacity (MDC) over 6 months in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) stratified by injury severity.

Design

Longitudinal study comparing controls and patients with TBI 1 month after injury (t1) and 6 months after injury (t2).

Setting

Inpatient TBI rehabilitation unit and outpatient neurology department.

Participants

Participants (N=151) consisted of control subjects (n=60) and patients with TBI (n=91) stratified by injury severity: mild TBI (mTBI; n=27), complicated mild TBI (cmTBI; n=20), and moderate/severe TBI (msevTBI; n=44).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

We used the Capacity to Consent to Treatment Instrument to evaluate MDC performance on 5 consent standar

SUBMITTER: Triebel KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4652592 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature