Clinical Epidemiology of Adults With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize admission patterns, treatments, and outcomes among patients with moderate traumatic brain injury.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

National Trauma Data Bank.

Patients

Adults (age > 18 yr) with moderate traumatic brain injury (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth revision codes and admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 9-13) in the National Trauma Data Bank between 2007 and 2014.

Interventions

None.

Measurement and main results

Demographics, mechanism of injury, hospital course, and facility characteristics were examined. Admission characteristics associated with discharge outcomes were analyzed using multivariable Poisson regression models. Of 114,066 patients, most were white (62%), male (69%), and

SUBMITTER: Watanitanon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5899009 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature