Cory M McLaughlin, Wesley E Barry, Erica N Barin, Melissa Mert, Chantel Lowery, Jeffrey S Upperman, Aaron R Jensen, Helen Arbogast
Interactive Education is Associated With Lower Incidence of Pedestrian-Related Injury in Children
The Journal of surgical research
road traffic accident rta major cause traumatic brain injury tbi developing countries affects mostly young adult population research aimed describe factors predicting functional outcome tbi caused rta malaysian setting retrospective crosssectional study conducted specialist medical reports written 2009 2019 involving patients survived tbi rta functional outcome assessed using glasgow outcome scaleextended gose factors associated good outcome analysed via logistic regression analysis multivariate logistic regression analysis used derive best fitting prediction model splitsample crossvalidation performed develop prediction model total 1939 reports evaluated mean age study participants 324 137 years patients male less 40 average post rta two years good outcome gose score 7 8 reported 303 patients factors significantly affecting functional outcome include age gender ethnicity marital status education level severity brain injury neurosurgical intervention icu admission presence inpatient complications cognitive impairment posttraumatic headache post traumatic seizures presence significant behavioural issue residence post discharge p005 adjusting confounding factors prediction model identified age less 40 mild tbi absence post traumatic seizure absence behaviour issue absence cognitive impairment independent living post tbi significant predictors good functional outcome post trauma discrimination model acceptable cstatistic 067 p0001 95 ci 062073 good functional outcome following tbi due rta study population comparable low middle income countries lower high income countries factors influencing outcome seizure cognitive behavioural issues independent living post injury addressed early achieve favourable longterm outcomes