Comparability of National Estimates for Traumatic Brain Injury-Related Medical Encounters

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• Alternative Title:
  J Head Trauma Rehabil
• Personal Author:
  Taylor, Christopher A. ; Greenspan, Arlene I. ; Xu, Likang ; Kresnow, Marcie-jo
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To describe similarities and differences in the number of civilian traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits between national databases that capture US hospital data.
  
  Participants
  
  TBI-related hospitalizations included in the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS) and emergency department visits in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) and HCUP Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (HCUP-NEDS) for 2006–2010.
  
  Design
  
  Cross-sectional design.
  
  Main Measures
  
  Nationwide counts of TBI-related medical encounters.
  
  Results
  
  Overall, the frequency of TBI is comparable when comparing NHDS with HCUP-NIS and NHAMCS with HCUP-NEDS. However, annual counts in both NHDS and NHAMCS are consistently unstable when examined in smaller subgroups, such as by age group and injury mechanism. Injury mechanism is consistently missing from many more records in NHDS compared with HCUP-NIS.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Given the large sample size of HCUP-NIS and HCUP-NEDS, these data can offer a valuable resource for examining TBI-related hospitalization and emergency department visits, especially by subgroup. These data hold promise for future examinations of annual TBI counts, but ongoing comparisons with national probability samples will be necessary to ensure that HCUP continues to track with estimates from these data.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Article Brain Injuries Child Child, Preschool Cross-Sectional Studies Databases, Factual Emergency Service, Hospital Female Health Care Surveys Hospitalization Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged Young Adult

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• Source:
  J Head Trauma Rehabil. 30(3):150-159.
• Pubmed ID:
  25955702
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4677327
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:feec26e007c2e22d2f4d504d333114492b20f22e2630db7d62ab1619fbd7cbf6
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36815/cdc_36815_DS1.pdf
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