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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate distribution of levels of caregiver supervision at 1 year after traumatic brain injury, and to determine neuropsychologic predictors of supervision level. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal design, concurrent measurement of neuropsychologic function and supervision level. SETTING: Seventeen Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems centers. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 563 ...

Objective: To determine concordance between patient and family report of neurobehavioral symptoms and problems across 6 domains of function and 3 levels of injury severity at 1 year after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Design: Prospective longitudinal design with follow-up between 10 and 14 months postinjury. Setting: Seventeen Traumatic Brain ...

Study examined the impact of participation in a postacute community reentry program on functional outcome for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) based on when they started the program. Participants were divided into 3 groups based on the length of time between injury and admission to the program: (1) ...

Critique of studies that have examined whether comprehensive acute inpatient and postacute outpatient rehabilitation interventions result in improved long term outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The first part discusses three threats to the internal validity of research designs for measuring the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions: spontaneous recovery, preinjury ...

Article in a special issue dedicated to research findings from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). (See AN XJ32562 to XJ32568 for the articles.) This article describes a study that explored factors affecting rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) and charges ...