§280b–1d — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Health Secretary, through the CDC director, can give grants to states or their partners to build or run state systems or registries that track traumatic brain injuries (TBI). These systems must measure how often TBIs happen and how many people have TBI, make reporting consistent, help connect people with TBI to services, and link them with colleges or researchers. The systems must collect basic facts about each injury: who was injured, how it happened, where the information came from and dates of hospitalization/treatment and the injury, and clinical details like severity, outcomes, treatments, and services used. No later than 18 months after April 28, 2008, the Health Secretary, working with CDC and NIH leaders and consulting the Defense and Veterans Affairs secretaries, must send Congress a report with findings from an evaluation on how CDC can better gather and share matching studies about TBI in people who used to be in the military, plus recommendations for joint work on better TBI tests and treatments. The Health Secretary, through CDC, can also collect and study data on concussions to find how common they are.

Title 42, §280b–1d

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States or their designees to develop or operate the State’s traumatic brain injury surveillance system or registry to determine the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury and related disability, to ensure the uniformity of reporting under such system or registry, to link individuals with traumatic brain injury to services and supports, and to link such individuals with academic institutions to conduct applied research that will support the development of such surveillance systems and registries as may be necessary. A surveillance system or registry under this section shall provide for the collection of data concerning—

(1)demographic information about each traumatic brain injury;

(2)information about the circumstances surrounding the injury event associated with each traumatic brain injury;

(3)administrative information about the source of the collected information, dates of hospitalization and treatment, and the date of injury; and

(4)information characterizing the clinical aspects of the traumatic brain injury, including the severity of the injury, outcomes of the injury, the types of treatments received, and the types of services utilized.

(b)Not later than 18 months after April 28, 2008, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Director of the National Institutes of Health and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress a report that contains the findings derived from an evaluation concerning activities and procedures that can be implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve the collection and dissemination of compatible epidemiological studies on the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury in individuals who were formerly in the military. The report shall include recommendations on the manner in which such agencies can further collaborate on the development and improvement of traumatic brain injury diagnostic tools and treatments.

(c)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may implement concussion data collection and analysis to determine the prevalence and incidence of concussion.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 393C of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 393A and is classified to section 280b–1b of this title.

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–377 added subsec. (c). 2008—Pub. L. 110–206, § 3(b)(1), inserted “surveillance and” after “National program for traumatic brain injury” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–206, § 3(b)(2), in introductory provisions, substituted “may make grants to States or their designees to develop or operate the State’s traumatic brain injury surveillance system or registry to determine the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury and related disability, to ensure the uniformity of reporting under such system or registry, to link individuals with traumatic brain injury to services and supports, and to link such individuals with academic institutions to conduct applied research that will support the development of such surveillance systems and registries as may be necessary. A surveillance system or registry under this section shall provide for the collection of data concerning—” for “may make grants to States or their designees to operate the State’s traumatic brain injury registry, and to academic institutions to conduct applied research that will support the development of such registries, to collect data concerning—”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–206, § 3(c), added subsec. (b).

§280b–1d National program for traumatic brain injury surveillance and registries