Return to productive activity after traumatic brain injury: relationship with measures of disability, handicap, and community integration.

Objectives: To identify which factors are associated with successful return to productive activity (RTPA) 1 year after hospitalization with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to examine the relations between successful RTPA and other measures of impairment, disability, handicap, and integration into the community.

Design: Prospective study with 1-year follow-up.

Setting: Level I trauma center.