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 Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems
The Rocky Mountain Regional Brain Injury System (the RMRBIS) is a special research project at Craig Hospital. We are sponsored by the US Department of Education’s National Institute on Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and are one of the facilities making up the TBI Model Systems program. All of these facilities can be considered to be Centers of Excellence in TBI care. First funded in 1998, the RMRBIS has now begun a second cycle, running from 2002-2007. Through our research we hope to learn more about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and about the issues and concerns people with TBIs have. Our goal is to improve outcomes and quality of life for people who have had brain injuries, and for their families. People with TBIs who participate in our research project are helping in several ways:  They allow us to review their medical records.Information about their injuries, their hospital stays, and their treatments are combined with information they give us and questionnaires they complete. Then, we send this information – anonymously – to the national TBI Model Systems data center. There, information is combined with that of more than 7000 other TBI survivors from the other TBI Model Systems programs across the country. Combining data with these other programs will help us learn more about brain injuries much more quickly. During the first four years that we were a Model System center, more than 150 people with TBI who were participating in our rehabilitation program volunteered for Craig’s research.
They are allowing us to re-contact them every year, around the same month as they were first injured. They complete an interview with questions about the recovery process and about the problems and successes they’ve had since they left Craig Hospital. Basically, the interviews we do will help us learn how life is going for our study participants, and what things they may still need to continue their recovery.
They may participate in specific research projects conducted by staff at Craig.
Research projects being conducted for the 2002-2007 grant include:
Results of completed RMRBIS projects
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