Factors associated with strain in carers of people with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To explore factors associated with strain in carers of patients with traumatic brain injury.

Design: Cross-sectional cohort study.

Participants: Forty-eight carers of patients with traumatic brain injury admitted to a neurosurgical unit over a 9-year period were assessed an average of 9.

Validation of the IMPACT outcome prediction score using the Nottingham Head Injury Register dataset.

Background: Comparison of traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes is severely limited by the absence of a universally accepted and validated outcome prediction score. The IMPACT group recently reported models predicting mortality and unfavorable outcome after TBI, based on the outcomes of patients with moderate and severe head injury reported in two large clinical trials.

Methods: We have used prospectively collected data from 1,276 adult patients from the Nottingham Head Injury Register admitted to a single UK neurosurgical unit during a 10-year period to validate the IMPACT score models.