Head and traumatic brain injury in England: a cohort study

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Determine population incidence of head injury and traumatic brain injury, and identify associated factors.; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

• Registration Number: ISRCTN17705590
• Lead Sponsor: Barts Health NHS Trust

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-11-10
• Last Update Posted: 19 December 2023
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1400000

Inclusion Criteria

The study period is 01/11/2018 to 29/02/2020 and the population of interest includes all patients that attended an ED in England in 2019

Exclusion Criteria

Since this is a study aiming to identify the national population incidence of head injury, the national rate of ED attendance for head injury, and the association (if any) of possible predictors with TBI including age, sex, ethnicity and socio-economic group, all ED attendances in England will be the baseline population, and consequently there are no exclusion criteria within the study period.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Incidence of head injury attendance to Emergency Departments amongst the population of England measured using data from four linked data sets; ECDS, DIDS, APC-HES and ONS-mortality

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measured using data from four linked data sets; ECDS, DIDS, APC-HES and ONS-mortality:<br>1. Population incidence of TBI amongst the population of England<br>2. Incidence of head injury amongst the population of people that attend EDs in England<br>3. Incidence of types of TBI by anatomical classification<br>4. Incidence of surgery for TBI<br>5. Rate of death due to TBI<br>6. The association (if any) with TBI of independent variables including age, sex, ethnicity and index of multiple deprivation