DEFINITION:
Marital status at evaluation, *
according to the best source of information (person with brain injury unless unavailable or unreliable).
CODE:
1 Single (a person who has never married)
2 Married (a person who is married, whether legally or by commonlaw definition of seven years cohabitation)
3 Divorced (a person who is legally divorced)
4 Separated (includes both legal separation and living apart from a married partner)
5 Widowed
7 Other
9 Unknown
EXAMPLE:
Patient was separated from spouse at time of evaluation.
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Traumatic Brain Injury Model System National Database Live Syllabus V10.3
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