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Article: Increasing Quality of Life and Awareness of deficits in persons with traumatic brain injury: a pilot study.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
- Author:
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According to the Center for Disease Control (2002), estimates of the number of people who have survived traumatic brain injury range from 2.5 million to 6.5 million, representing two percent of the U.S. population. The average incidence rate is currently 95 people with traumatic brain injury per 100,000 in the population (Center for Disease Control). During the years 1990 to 1995, the mean annual incidence rate of persons with traumatic brain injury, who were hospitalized and survived, was 260,000. Of these 260,000 persons with traumatic brain injury, thirty-five percent experienced the onset of a longterm disability (Center for Disease Control). Consequently, the ...