Extension of the representativeness of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database: 2001 to 2010.
Extension of the representativeness of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database: 2001 to 2010.
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10.1097/htr.0b013e31826da983
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2012-11
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Coronado VG
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作者:
Cuthbert JP;Corrigan JD;Whiteneck GG;Harrison-Felix C;Graham JE;Bell JM;Coronado VG
To extend the representativeness of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database (TBIMS-NDB) for individuals aged 16 years and older admitted for acute, inpatient rehabilitation in the United States with a primary diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) analyses completed by Corrigan and colleagues, by comparing this dataset to national data for patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation with identical inclusion criteria that included 3 additional years of data and 2 new demographic variables. Secondary analysis of existing datasets; extension of previously published analyses. Acute inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Patients 16 years of age and older with a primary rehabilitation diagnosis of TBI; US TBI Rehabilitation population n = 156,447; TBIMS-NDB population n = 7373. None. demographics, functional status and hospital length of stay. The TBIMS-NDB was largely representative of patients 16 years and older admitted for rehabilitation in the U.S. with a primary diagnosis of TBI on or after October 1, 2001 and discharged as of December 31, 2010. The results of the extended analyses were similar to those reported by Corrigan and colleagues. Age accounted for the largest difference between the samples, with the TBIMS-NDB including a smaller proportion of patients aged 65 and older as compared to all those admitted for rehabilitation with a primary diagnosis of TBI in the United States. After partitioning each dataset at age 65, most distributional differences found between samples were markedly reduced; however, differences on the Pre-injury vocational status of employed and rehabilitation lengths of stay between 1 and 9 days remained robust. The subsamples of patients aged 64 and younger was found to differ only slightly on all remaining variables, while those aged 65 and older were found to have meaningful differences on insurance type and age distribution. These results reconfirm that the TBIMS-NDB is largely representative of patients with TBI receiving inpatient rehabilitation in the U.S. Differences between the two datasets were found to be stable across the 3 additional years of data, and new differences were limited to those involving newly introduced variables. In order to use these data for population-based research, it is strongly recommended that statistical adjustment be conducted to account for the lower percentage of patients over age 65, inpatient rehabilitation stays less than 10 days and Pre-injury vocational status in the TBIMS NDB.