(a) 1 In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States or their designees to operate the States traumatic brain injury registry, and to academic institutions to conduct applied research that will support the development of such registries, to collect 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.
