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Recovery of Consciousness and Functional Outcome in Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury by Robert G. Kowalski; Flora M. Hammond; Alan H. Weintraub; Risa Nakase-Richardson; Ross D. Zafonte; John Whyte; Joseph T. Giacino is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Importance: Traumatic brain injury (tbi) leads to 2.9 million visits to us emergency departments annually and frequently involves a disorder of consciousness (doc). early treatment, including withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and rehabilitation, is often predicated on the assumed worse outcome of disrupted consciousness. ## Objective: To quantify the loss of consciousness, factors associated with recovery, and return to functional independence in a 31-year sample of patients with moderate or severe brain trauma. ## Design, setting, and participants: This cohort study analyzed patients with tbi who were enrolled in the traumatic brain injury model systems national database, a prospective, multiyear, longitudinal database. patients were survivors of moderate or severe tbi who were discharged from acute hospitalization and admitted to inpatient rehabilitation from january 4, 1989, to june 19, 2019, at 1 of 23 inpatient rehabilitation centers that participated in the traumatic brain injury model systems program. follow-up for the study was through completion of inpatient rehabilitation. ## Exposures: Traumatic brain injury. ## Main outcomes and measures: Outcome measures were
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- Author
- Robert G. Kowalski; Flora M. Hammond; Alan H. Weintraub; Risa Nakase-Richardson; Ross D. Zafonte; John Whyte; Joseph T. Giacino
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)