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

Strauss DJ, DeVivo MJ, Paculdo DR, Shavelle RM. Trends in life expectancy after spinal
cord injury. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether there have been improvements in survival …

DeVivo MJ, Chen Y. Trends in new injuries, prevalent cases, and aging with spinal cord
injury. OBJECTIVE: To determine the characteristics of the newly injured and prevalent …

Study design: Retrospective and prospective observational. Objectives: Analyse long-term
survival after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) in Great Britain over the 70-year study period …

This study investigated mortality and causes of death between 1988 and 1999 in 14781
persons (6702 female) with Down syndrome in California, comparing age, sex, ethnicity, and …

Krause JS, Saunders LL. Health, secondary conditions, and life expectancy after spinal cord
injury. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of health status, secondary health …

This study investigated the possibility of improved survival in cerebral palsy (CP) over a 20‐
year period. Participants were 47 259 persons with CP receiving services from the State of …

Objective To identify trends in causes of death after spinal cord injury (SCI) that could
enhance understanding of why life expectancy after SCI has not improved in the last 3 …

Objective To investigate whether there have been improvements in long-term survival after
spinal cord injury in recent decades. Design Survival analysis using time-varying covariates …

Objectives To document long-term survival in 1-year survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI);
to compare the use of the Disability Rating Scale (DRS) and FIM as factors in the estimation …