Traumatic Brain
Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits,
Hospitalizations, and Deaths
Through the
Children’s Health Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-310), Congress charged
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with “determining
the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury in all age groups
in the general population of the United States.” In response, CDC
has produced a new report, Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States:
Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths.
This report provides detailed information about traumatic brain injury
(TBI)-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department (ED) visits
in the United States for the years 1995 through 2001. The data can be used
to address a wide range of important questions, such as how many TBIs occur
each year in the United States, who is affected, and how these TBIs occur.
Highlights from the report include the following:
Each year in the United States:
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At least 1.4 million people sustain a TBI. Of these, about 50,000 die,
235,000 are hospitalized, and 1.1 million are treated and released
from an ED.
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Approximately 475,000 TBIs occur among children ages 0 to 14 years;
ED visits account for more than 90% of the TBIs in this age group.
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Falls are the leading cause of TBI; rates are highest for children ages
0 to 4 years and for adults age 75 years or older.
This report is intended as a reference for policy makers, service providers,
educators, researchers, advocates, and others interested in knowing more about
the impact of TBI in the United States.
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