Blast-induced neurotrauma (BINT), 36–41

diffuse brain injury, 41

experimental and clinical studies of, 8–9, 370–371

penetrating traumatic brain injury, 40–41

primary blast-induced neurotrauma, 37–40

recommendations concerning, 370–371

severity scoring of, 45

Brain injury severity, 63–64

severity distributions, 64

Brain tumors and traumatic brain injury, 350–363

primary studies, 350–354

secondary studies, 354–355

summary and conclusions, 355

Brief Traumatic Brain Injury Screen, 8, 44–45, 370

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Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA), 129–130

Case-control studies, 109–110

nested, 110

Case-fatality rates (CFRs), 68

Categories of associations, 112–113

inadequate/insufficient evidence to determine whether an association exists, 113

limited/suggestive evidence of an association, 112

limited/suggestive evidence of no association, 113

sufficient evidence of a casual relationship, 112

sufficient evidence of an association, 112

Caveness. See W.F. Caveness studies of Korean War veterans

Classification according to biomechanics of injury, 27–28

closed injury, 27–28

penetrating and perforating injuries, 28

Classification according to extent of pathology, 25–27

pathologic features of diffuse traumatic brain injury, 26–27

pathologic features of focal traumatic brain injury, 25–26

Cohort studies, 117–172

Bryant and Harvey studies, 133–134, 155–156

general limitations of, 117–118

Jennett (Oxford, Rotterdam, Cardiff, and Manchester) studies, 137–138, 163–164

military studies, 118–127

one type of observational-study design, 108–109

population-based, 127–133

Roberts (Oxford, UK) studies, 138–140, 162–163

of sports-related traumatic brain injury, 140–165

University of Washington longitudinal traumatic brain injury studies, 134–137, 156–162

Computed tomography (CT), of brain lesions, 60

Conclusions and recommendations, 367–372