Traumatic Brain Injury–Related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations & Deaths — United States, 2007 & 2013

On March 17, 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released this country-wide traumatic brain injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths comparison report on years 2007 and 2013.

CDC conducts surveillance of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to understand the public health burden, to monitor trends, and to identify groups at greatest risk for TBI. To estimate the incidence of TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths (TBI-EDHDs) during 2013 compared to 2007, the CDC analyzed the latest data from two Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases and the National Vital Statistics System . . .