CBIS Test Questions with Correct Answers

Surveillance - ANSWER Ongoing systemic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data Prevalence TBI - ANSWER 3.17-5.3 million Incidence - ANSWER 1.4 million tbi (4% death, 17% hospital, 79% tx and release How many people are disabled every year due to TBI - ANSWER 80,000-90,000 How much more do males sustain tbi - ANSWER 1.5x, 59% of TBI, higher rate of death Race - ANSWER Blacks 486/100,000 Whites 81% TBI Age highest rate of incidence - ANSWER 0-4 (1121 per 100,000) Age highest death rate and hospitalization - ANSWER 75 (51 per 100,000) Highest rate of Ed visits - ANSWER 0-4 Ed visits - ANSWER 0-4 #1 cause of ED visits - ANSWER Falls 31% Hospitalizations highest rate - ANSWER Males 75 #1 cause of hospitalization and death - ANSWER Other 36% Deaths - ANSWER Male/female 75, blacks 20-24 Cause of injury - ANSWER Falls 29%, 31% ED, transportation 20% What % brain injury severe - ANSWER 5-25% What % is related to transportation - ANSWER 20% The correlation between alcohol and injury - ANSWER 56% TBI caused by - ANSWER An external force 1997 GAO report of TBI - ANSWER Determined that Medicaid and home community based waiver programs covered and estimated 2,478 and spent 118 million How many current individuals affected by TBI - ANSWER 10 million (2nd most prevalent) What is TBI - ANSWER An insult to the brain not of a degenerative or congenital nature but caused by an external force Causes of TBI - ANSWER Car accidents, falls, gunshot, sports injury What is ABI - ANSWER Injury to brain that has occurred after birth and is not hereditary, congenital, or degenerative. The injury commonly results in a change in neuronal activity which affects physical integrity, metabolic activity, or the functional ability of the cell. Includes TBI and injuries caused by an internal insult. A TBI is not an ABI