Background Pre-injury disability must be determined when assessing whether treatment
programs return people to pre-injury status, however there is little empirical evidence to …

Purpose To determine, in a cohort with injuries classified anatomically as mainly minor or
moderate and for which only 25% were hospitalised acutely, the prevalence of ongoing …

OBJECTIVE: To identify the role of preinjury sociodemographic and health characteristics,
injury and injury-related health care characteristics in determining functional outcomes 12 …

Background: Owing to the difficulty in prospectively measuring pre-injury health status and
health-related quality of life (HRQL) in an injured cohort, population norms or retrospective …

Objective: To describe the preinjury health-related quality of life (HRQL) of orthopaedic
trauma patients admitted to Level I trauma centers relative to the general population. Design …

Background Pre-injury health status is an important determining factor of long-term
outcomes after orthopaedic major trauma. Determining pre-injury health status of major …

Objective: Patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) often underestimate their preinjury
symptoms. This study aimed to clarify the mechanism underlying this recall bias and its …

BACKGROUND The impact of traumatic injury likely extends beyond direct physical
consequences and lasts well beyond the acute injury phase. Data collection is sparse after …

Understanding the role of comorbidity in recovery following injury is an important challenge
given the increasing prevalence of multimorbidity (2 or more comorbidities) in many …

Introduction Most studies investigating disability outcomes following injury have examined
hospitalised patients. It is not known whether variables associated with disability outcomes …