TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) in the United States

- An estimated 1.7 million people sustain TBI annually. Of these:

• 52,000 die
• 275,000 are hospitalized

- 1.365 million, nearly 80%, are treated and released from an emergency department.

- TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.

- About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI).

- Direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $60 billion in the United States in 2000.