Traumatic brain injury-related hospital discharges: results from a 14-state surveillance system, 1997.

Problem/Condition: Previous studies indicate that each year in the United States, approximately 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Of those injured, approximately one quarter million are hospitalized. Approximately one third of adults hospitalized with TBI still need help...

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Published in:	MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 52; no. 25; pp. 1 - 21
Main Authors:	Langlois JA, Kegler SR, Butler JA, Gotsch KE, Johnson RL, Richard AA, Webb KW, Coronado VG, Selassie AW, Thurman DJ
Format:	equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 6/27/2003
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost