Functional motor improvement during inpatient rehabilitation among older adults with traumatic brain injury

Abstract

Background: Older adults comprise an increasingly large proportion of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) receiving care in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF). However, high rates of comorbidities and evidence of declining preinjury health among older adults who sustain TBI raise questions about their ability to benefit from IRF care.

Successful Community Discharge Among Older Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury Admitted to Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

“…Therefore, the NTDB and Medicare data were probabilistically linked using a previously described Bayesian multi-layer record linkage algorithm. 40 , 41 , 42 This record-linkage procedure simultaneously links trauma centers and patients within trauma centers. The Bayesian procedure assumes that all pairs of trauma centers from NTDB and Medicare follow a mixture model of links and non-links.…”