Santopietro John, Yeomans Jay A, Niemeier Janet P, White Janice K, Coughlin Christopher M
Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
N C Med J. 2015 Apr;76(2):96-100. doi: 10.18043/ncm.76.2.96.
In the United States, 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year, of whom 52,000 die and 275,000 are hospitalized. Societal costs of TBI total at least $10 billion. In this article, we review the current state of treatment and policy and make recommendations that would benefit TBI survivors with behavioral health comorbidities.
在美国，每年有170万人遭受创伤性脑损伤（TBI），其中5.2万人死亡，27.5万人住院治疗。创伤性脑损伤的社会成本总计至少100亿美元。在本文中，我们回顾了当前的治疗和政策状况，并提出了有利于患有行为健康合并症的创伤性脑损伤幸存者的建议。
