Citation

Kraus JF, McArthur DL, Silberman TA. Semin. Neurol. 1994; 14(1): 1-7.

Affiliation

Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-2008-1041052

PMID

8029555

Abstract

Precautions in evaluating the literature:
A number of studies have shown that mild brain injury (MBI) accounts for a substantial proportion of all brain trauma admissions to hospitals. However, two trends appear: uncertainty about the essential characteristics of this condition despite new reports in the professional literature, and a small decline in the rate of brain injury in general over the past two decades. Although every study agrees that the greatest proportion of brain injuries are "mild," the published literature is critically lacking in methodologic consistency ...

Issues of definition and scope of brain injury

Even among the most detailed of epidemiologic studies in brain injury, the definition of a case and the criteria for and scoring of injury severity have varied markedly.