Long-Term Survival Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Population-Based Parametric Survival Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term mortality may be increased following traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, the degree to which survival could be reduced is unknown. We aimed at modelling life expectancy following post-acute TBI to provide predictions of longevity and quantify differences in survivorship with the general population.

Methods

A population-based retrospective cohort study using data from the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) was performed. A random sample of patients from Olmsted County, Minnesota with a confirmed TBI between 1987 and 2000 was identified and vital status determined in 2013. Parametric survival modelling was then used to develop a model to predict life expectancy following TBI conditional on age at injury. Survivorship following TBI was also compared wi

SUBMITTER: Fuller GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5537588 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature