Data Mining to Understand How Health Status Preceding Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Functional Outcome: A Population-Based Sex-Stratified Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand how health status preceding traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects relative functional gain after inpatient rehabilitation using a data mining approach.

Design

Population-based, sex-stratified, retrospective cohort study using health administrative data from Ontario, Canada (39% of the Canadian population).

Setting

Inpatient rehabilitation.

Participants

Patients 14 years or older (N=5802; 63.4% male) admitted to inpatient rehabilitation within 1 year of a TBI-related acute care discharge between April 1, 2008, and March 31, 2015.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

Relative functional gain (RFG) in percentage, calculated as ([discharge FIM-admission FIM]/[126-admission FIM]×100). Health status prior to TBI wa

SUBMITTER: Chan V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483900 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature