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.