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How many people need rehabilitation after a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? It is important to know the scale of the demand for rehabilitation services and an epidemiological perspective can provide this. It requires an examination of a wide range of material. A useful starting point in the UK is the ‘Hospitalized Incidence Rate’ of head injury. This is the number of new (annual) cases admitted to hospital following a head injury and is usually presented as a rate per 100 000. Most countries that routinely collect data about hospital admissions can provide this statistic, either at the local or regional level. Table 2.1 shows such data for 13 regions or countries reported in the literature over the last decade [1–13] and the rates vary from 152 per 100 000 people in Rhode Island, USA to 468 per 100 000 people in San Marino, Italy.
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Tennant, A. (1995). The epidemiology of head injury. In: Chamberlain, M.A., Neumann, V., Tennant, A. (eds) Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2871-9_2
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