The Definition, Incidence and Prevalence of Acquired Brain Injury in Australia

Full publication (362K PDF)

• Preliminary material (93K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Summary (separate HTML; 28K PDF)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
• Chapters
  1. Introduction (44K PDF)
     • ABI - an overview
     • ABI as a disability group
  2. Defining acquired brain injury (64K PDF)
     • Definitions used in policy, legislative and administrative contexts
     • Definitions used in studies of ABI incidence
     • Definitions used in disability prevalence studies
     • Measures of severity and outcome
  3. Review of existing estimates (90K PDF)
     • Incidence
     • Proportion of incident cases leading to long-term disability
     • Prevalence
     • Non-traumatic ABI
     • Summary of estimates reviewed
  4. AIHW estimates of ABI in Australia (137K PDF)
     • Approaches to estimating ABI incidence and prevalence
     • Estimates from the National Hospitality Morbidity Database 1996 - 97
     • Prevalence estimates from the 1993 ABS disability survey
     • Discussion
     • Conclusion
• End matter
  • Appendixes (43K PDF)
    • Appendix 1: Table of terms
    • Appendix 2: Calculation of confidence intervals for estimates
    • Appendix 3: 1993 ABS disability survey questions on limitations, restrictions and need for assistance
    • Appendix 4: Additional data tables
  • References (24K PDF)