Analysis of the data from the "Austrian Standardized Dataset for Intensive Care (ASDI); study funded by the AUVA (Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt).

ASDI collects data from 43 Austrian ICUs; it has now more than 80.000 patients from the years 2000 - 2006 in the database. The INRO team analyzed the subset of patients with TBI (approx. 4000 data sets), and investigated factors determining the outcomes of the TBI patients. The study (published in "Intensive Care Medicine" in 2008) proved that there is a significant "center effect" - patients treated at experienced centers (defined as treatment of >30 cases of severe TBI/year) had a significantly lower mortality.