Mayo Clinic Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Center: The CONNECT Trial

The complex intervention in CONNECT will be tested in 3 target populations: (1) Individuals hospitalized for TBI; (2) their family members; (3) their local health care providers. All intervention components will be delivered remotely: there will be no face-to-face interaction with the research subjects. The complex intervention tested in CONNECT is comprised of the clinical direction and advice to local providers, educational, and supportive services of the Mayo Brain Rehabilitation Clinic (BRC). The specific communication modes used to interact with individual study subjects, and the specific clinical and educational support services that are provided to an individual subject by these modes, will be determined by clinical need, individual preference, and technological capacity.

Participants in this arm will receive, experience, or provide the care that is usual and customary in their communities.