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Traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury affect over 220 million people worldwide and are linked to cardiometabolic, endocrine, neurological, and psychiatric sequelae for years to decades after injury.
- Why it matters: Most health systems treat neurotrauma as a time-limited event, leaving long-term surveillance fragmented or absent and contributing to preventable mortality and avoidable readmissions.
- What they did: The proposal reframes adult TBI and SCI as acute-onset multisystem chronic-risk conditions, using a risk-stratified care pathway with multisystem screening and telehealth plus integration with adjacent services.
- The result: The approach aims to enable measurable reductions in 5-year mortality, avoidable rehospitalisation, and long-term disability through financing, workforce, and registry reforms.
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