TBI Data

CDC collects and reports TBI data to understand:

• How many people are affected by this injury
• Who is most at risk
• The leading ways a person may get a TBI
• Whether programs to prevent TBI are working

Based on the most recent data:

• There were approximately 214,110 TBI-related hospitalizations in 2020* and 69,473 TBI-related deaths in 2021.¹
  • This represents more than 586 TBI-related hospitalizations and 190 TBI-related deaths per day.
  • These estimates do not include the many TBIs that are only treated in the emergency department, primary care, urgent care, or those that go untreated.²

• People age 75 years and older had the highest numbers and rates of TBI-related hospitalizations* and deaths.¹ This age group accounts for about 32% of TBI-related hospitalizations and 28% of TBI-related deaths.
• Males were nearly two times more likely to be hospitalized (79.9 age-adjusted rate versus 43.7)* and three times more likely to die¹ from a TBI than females (28.3 versus 8.4).

* This rate was calculated using the weighted number of hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of injury (ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes S00-S99; T07-T34; T36-T50 with a 6^th character of 1, 2, 3, or 4; T36.9, T37.9, T39.9, T41.4, T42.7, T43.9, T45.9, T47.9, or T49.9 with a 5^th character of 1, 2, 3, or 4; T51-T76; T79; O9A.2-O9A.5; T84.04; or M97) and an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for an initial medical encounter of TBI (S02.0. S02.1, S02.80-S02.82, S02.91, S04.02, S04.03, S04.04, S06, S07.1, T74.4) in any diagnosis field and dividing it by the corresponding civilian non-institutionalized population per 100,000. Data source: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s National Inpatient Sample. 2020.