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J Head Trauma Rehabil · Nov 2008
Prevalence of long-term disability from traumatic brain injury in the civilian population of the United States, 2005.
- Eduard Zaloshnja, Ted Miller, Jean A Langlois, and Anbesaw W Selassie.
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, MD 20705, USA. zaloshnja@pire.org
- J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2008 Nov 1;23(6):394-400.
ObjectiveTo estimate the prevalence of long-term disability associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the civilian population of the United States.MethodsWe first estimated how many people experienced long-term disability from TBI each year in the past 70 years. Then, accounting for the increased mortality among TBI survivors, we estimated their life expectancy and calculated how many were expected to be alive in 2005.ResultsAn estimated 1.1% of the US civilian population or 3.17 million people (95% CI: 3.02-3.32 million) were living with a long-term disability from TBI at the beginning of 2005. Under less conservative assumptions about TBI's impact on lifespan, this estimate is 3.32 million (95% CI: 3.16-3.48 million).ConclusionSubstantial long-term disability occurs among the US civilians hospitalized with a TBI.
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