Australia isn't reducing the impact of traumatic brain injuries

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The amount of Australians hospitalised for a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the rate of death did not change significantly from 2015 to 2020, according to Australian researchers who say current injury prevention and trauma care strategies aren't doing much to reduce the impact of TBIs. The researchers used hospital data to compare the number of people admitted to hospital with a TBI and the number of deaths in hospital following a TBI. They say 16,350 Australians were hospitalised for a TBI over that time, 71.2% of which were men. 2,437 people died in hospital during the course of the study.

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conference: Medical Journal of Australia

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Organisation/s: The University of Sydney, Monash University, George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Flinders University, Curtin University

Funder: The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) Project, in which all authors are either chief investigators or project research staff, received funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Research Grants: Traumatic Brain Injury Mission (MRF2007671) on 30 June 2021. The Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry, fundamental to the success of the ATBIND Project, has received contributions from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care (administration of the ATR: GO2992) and non-government sources (Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand). The salaries of Courtney Ryder, Delia Hendrie, Afsana Afroz, Emma Solly, and Shane D’Angelo are funded by the MRFF Traumatic Brain Injury Mission grant

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