Health service use in adults 20-64 years with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury or pelvic fracture. A cohort study with 9-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT: To estimate the health service use over 9 years after the injury year for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI) and pelvic fracture (PF), and compare with non-injured. A register-based cohort design with a 9-year follow-up period. The Danish population. The study included 434, 100 and 278 hospital-treated incident patients with TBI, SCI and PF, respectively, among 20-year-olds to 64-year-olds identified using the National Patient Register. Controls for each patient group were drawn from the population register, matched by age, sex and health service use during 1995. All were followed during 1996-2005 by linkage to national health registers. The observations were excluded when the patients left Denmark or died. The use of hospital treatments, contacts with gen

SUBMITTER: Laursen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488711 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature