So where is the national stroke database? A Great stroke association would have created one years ago.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J64950&phrase=no&rec=120186
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
, Volume 27(6)
, Pgs. 391-403.
NARIC Accession Number: J64950. What's this?
ISSN: 0885-9701.
Author(s): Corrigan, John D.; Cuthbert, Jeffrey P.; Whiteneck, Gale G.; Dijkers, Marcel P.; Coronado, Victor; Heinemann, Allen W.; Harrison-Felix, Cynthia; Graham, James E..
Project Number: H133A060038, H133A070022, H133A070029, H133A070033, H133A080045.
Publication Year: 2012.
Number of Pages: 13.
Abstract: Study investigated whether the Traumatic
Brain Injury Model Systems National Database (TBIMS-NDB) is
representative of individuals aged 16 years and older admitted for acute
inpatient rehabilitation in the United States with a primary diagnosis
of traumatic brain injury (TBI). A secondary analysis of existing data
sets compared patients admitted to acute inpatient rehabilitation
facilities with subjects included in the TBIMS-ND from October 2001
through December 2007. Variables of interest were demographic
characteristics, functional status, and hospital length of stay. Results
indicated that patients included in the TBIMS-NDB were largely
representative of all individuals 16 years and older admitted for
rehabilitation in the United States with a primary diagnosis of TBI. The
major difference in distribution was age; the TBIMS-NDB cohort did not
include as large a proportion of patients older than 65 years as were
admitted for rehabilitation. Distributional differences for age-related
characteristics were observed; however, groups of patients partitioned
at aged 65 years differed minimally, especially within the younger than
65 years subset. Regardless of age, the proportion of patients with a
rehabilitation stay of 1 to 9 days was larger nationwide. Nationwide
admissions showed an age distribution similar to patients discharged
alive from acute care with moderate, severe, or penetrating TBI. The
proportion of patients aged 70 years and older admitted for TBI
rehabilitation increased every year, a trend that was not evident in the
general population, TBIMS-NDB, or among TBI patients in acute care.
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