Comparing the Injury Profile, Service Use, Outcomes, and Comorbidities of People With Severe TBI Across Urban, Regional, and Remote Populations in New South Wales: A Multicentre Study.

Objective: To compare the demographic/injury profile, outcomes, service utilization, and unmet service needs of individuals with severe traumatic brain injury across urban, regional, and remote areas of New South Wales.

Setting: The 11 community-based rehabilitation teams of the New South Wales Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program.

Participants: Active clients (N = 503) with severe traumatic brain injury.

A prospective interrupted time series study of interventions to improve the quality, rating, framing and structure of goal-setting in community-based brain injury rehabilitation.

Objective: To investigate whether the introduction of an electronic goals system followed by staff training improved the quality, rating, framing and structure of goals written by a community-based brain injury rehabilitation team.

Design: Interrupted time series design.

Intervention: Two interventions were introduced six months apart.

Late mortality after severe traumatic brain injury in New South Wales: a multicentre study.

Objectives: To determine the long-term mortality pattern of adults with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), and to identify the risk factors associated with death in this group.

Design, Patients And Setting: Inception cohort study of 2545 adults consecutively discharged from one of three metropolitan tertiary, post-acute inpatient rehabilitation services of the New South Wales Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program from 1 January 1990 to 1 October 2007 after inpatient rehabilitation for primary TBI.

Main Outcome Measure: Survival status at 1 October 2009.

Measuring psychosocial recovery after brain injury: change versus competency.

Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of an alternative form of the Sydney Psychosocial Reintegration Scale (SPRS) that focuses on competency of functioning (Form B) as opposed to the original form that examines change from the premorbid level (Form A).

Design: Descriptive correlational study. Ratings were made by 2 treating clinicians on patients at discharge and 1 week later by using Forms A and B of the SPRS.