ABSTRACT
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death worldwide. It occurs as a sudden catastrophic event that often leads to persistent, severe, sometimes lifelong, disabling consequences. Survival with major functional and mental disabilities would be a burden on family, society, and the national economy. A meaningful quality of life after TBI should be the goal of treatment. Hence, prognostic models that combine data from the patients’ perspective to predict outcome are likely to be more accurate than simple clinical predictions.Outcome measures focusing on quality of life after TBI are necessary to determine the patients at risk for an unfavorable outcome and also to optimize the use of limited healthcare and social resources. Currently, there is a wide choice of outcome tools available that can reliably measure the Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with TBI.
