Here is helpful news in the continuing effort to measure, detect and treat brain injury:
Philadelphia, Pa. (January 4, 2012) – Starting this month, The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation(JHTR)—in partnership with The Center For Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI)—introduces a new feature designed to support effective and informed use of standardized assessments for evaluation of brain injury. The official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America, JHTR is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part ofWolters Kluwer Health.
Beginning with the January, 2012 issue, the journal will include regular profiles of assessments and instruments, drawn from the COMBI, for use in treatment and program evaluation for patients with brain injury. “The more complex the behavior or activity we want to document, the more important it is to have an objective instrument for quantifying our observations,” comments John D. Corrigan, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The Ohio State University and Editor-in-Chief of JHTR.
“The COMBI website has created a ‘one-stop shop’ to look for information about measurement tools, their use and how they were validated. And now, JHTR readers will have regular updates of both existing scales and new additions to the COMBI.”
Feature Highlights ‘Tools for Clinical Use’ from COMBI
The COMBI is an online resource providing detailed information and support on assessments and outcome measures used in brain injury rehabilitation and assessment. The COMBI is a collaborative project of 16 brain injury facilities or centers, most of them Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems, funded through grants from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The COMBI is coordinated at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, Calif.
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