State-Level Numbers and Rates of Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide state-level traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related emergency department (ED) visit, hospitalization, and death estimates for 2014.

Setting and participants

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Core Violence and Injury Prevention Program and State Injury Indicators participating states.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Main measures

Number and incidence rates of TBI-related ED visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in more than 30 states.

Results

The rates of TBI-related ED visits in 2014 ranged from 381.1 per 100 000 (South Dakota) to 998.4 per 100 000 (Massachusetts). In 2014, Pennsylvania had the highest TBI-related hospitalization rate (98.9) and Ohio had the lowest (55.1). In 2014, the TBI-related death rate ranged from 9.1 per 10

SUBMITTER: Daugherty J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7831129 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov/Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature