About 30% of persons with SCI are re-hospitalized one or more times during any given year
following injury. Among those rehospitalized the length of hospital stay averages about 22 …

Krause JS, Coker JL, Charlifue S, Whiteneck GG. Health outcomes among American Indians
with spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000; 81: 924-31. Objective: To identify …

Background: Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in the community have high health
care utilization (HCU). To date, the interrelationships among multiple secondary health …

Study design: Cohort study Objectives: The objective of this study was to characterize the
incidence of spinal cord injury (SCI) within the population of the United States military from …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition often affecting young and healthy
individuals around the world. This debilitating condition not only creates enormous physical …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate risk factors associated with mortality among people with
traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) after discharge from acute care hospitals in South …

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 …

Study design: Review supplemented by inception cohort. Objectives: To review trends in the
incidence, prevalence, demographic characteristics, etiology, injury severity and selected …

Importance Acute traumatic spinal cord injury results in disability and use of health care
resources, yet data on contemporary national trends of traumatic spinal cord injury incidence …

There is a paucity of data comparing the demographics, mechanism of injury, and outcomes
of upper versus lower cervical spinal cord injuries (cSCI). The study objective was to define …