Wheelchair-related falls in veterans with spinal cord injury residing in the community: a prospective cohort study

AL Nelson, S Groer, P Palacios, D Mitchell… - Archives of physical …, 2010 - Elsevier
… ) to determine the best predictors for a wheelchair fall and fall-related injury in our sample.
The dependent variable was whether a fall or fall with injury occurred at any time point during …

Health care costs for patients with chronic spinal cord injury in the Veterans Health Administration

DD French, RR Campbell, S Sabharwal… - … journal of spinal cord …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
VA Medical Center. This study will examine wheelchair falls in veterans with spinal cord
injury… This is an important study since it addressees safety, costs and quality of life for veterans

Falls in veterans healthcare administration hospitals: prevalence and trends

Y Young-Xu, C Soncrant, J Neily, S Boar… - The Journal for …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… This could be a result of these facilities providing more services to severely ill patients who
are not as mobile (spinal cord injury units and intensive care units), and often these facilities …

[PDF][PDF] Traumatic brain injury in US veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury

GH Creasey, ZC Lateva… - J Rehabil Res …, 2015 - academia.edu
… both a spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) … Veterans’ hospital were
searched to identify those with concurrent TBI. The data were analyzed for age, sex, cause of injury

A comparison of costs and health care utilization for veterans with traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury

J St. Andre, B Smith, K Stroupe… - … Spinal Cord Injury …, 2011 - meridian.allenpress.com
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest system of care for individuals with
spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D) in the world. This article compares demographics, …

A historical study of appendicular fractures in veterans with traumatic chronic spinal cord injury: 2002–2007

M Bethel, L Bailey, F Weaver, RL Harmon… - … journal of spinal cord …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… system that further describe an injury as due to an … falls, late effects of accidents, self-injuries,
assaults, or suicide). For the purposes of this study, only E-codes from non-specific falls

[PDF][PDF] Pressure ulcers in veterans with spinal cord injury: a retrospective study.

SL Garber, DH Rintala - Journal of Rehabilitation Research & …, 2003 - Citeseer
… among veterans with SCI living in the community. Reducing the prevalence of pressure
ulcers among veterans with SCI will have a significant impact on the Department of Veterans

Posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans with spinal cord injury: Trauma-related risk factors

CL Radnitz, L Hsu, J Willard, L Perez-Strumolo… - Journal of traumatic …, 1998 - Springer
… Trauma-related risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were examined in a
sample of 125 veterans with spinal cord injury. Category of injury was found to be the most …

[HTML][HTML] Health-related quality of life among individuals with long-standing spinal cord injury: a comparative study of veterans and non-veterans

S Saadat, M Javadi, BS Divshali, AH Tavakoli… - BMC Public Health, 2010 - Springer
cord injured veterans; and to compare health-related quality of life between veterans and
non-veterans … ), falls (31.7%), violence (12.7%), sports injuries (3.2%) and other causes (3.2%). …

Data mining in healthcare information systems: case study of a veterans' administration spinal cord injury population

MR Kraft, KC Desouza… - 36th Annual Hawaii …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the following paper the process of knowledge generation from the Veterans … the total
patient population, specifically those with spinal cord injuries (SCI). Although SCI patients do not …