Functional outcome following rehabilitation in chronic severe traumatic brain injury patients: A prospective study (original) (raw)

emergency departments, and 50,000 die, with estimated 43.3% having residual disability 1 year after hospitalization with TBI. The prevalence of U.S. civilian residents living with disability following hospitalization with TBI is 3.2 million. [2] In Europe the incidence rate, reporting hospitalized patients and patients who die before reaching hospital, is approximately 243 per 100,000 per year. [3-5] In India an estimated 1.6 million persons sustain head injury each year with 200,000 deaths and 1 million requiring rehabilitation services at any point of time. The prevalence of patients with TBI in India is estimated to be 9.7 million. Out of total TBI cases approximately 16% sustain severe TBI. [6] As patients with severe TBI are left with physical, cognitive, behavioral and speech impairments, multidisciplinary rehabilitation is the need of the hour to address these issues. A number of studies have been done in the past few years to assess functional outcome following TBI which carries great importance as these patients are left with significant residual