Incidence and prevalence of traumatic spinal cord injury in Canada using health administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Incidence and prevalence data are needed for the planning, funding, delivery and evaluation of injury prevention and health care programs. The objective of this study was to estimate the Canadian traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) incidence, prevalence and trends over time using national-level health administrative data.

Methods

ICD-10 CA codes were used to identify the cases for the hospital admission and discharge incidence rates of TSCI in Canada from 2005 to 2016. Provincial estimates were calculated using the location of the admitting facility. Age and sex-specific incidence rates were set to the 2015/2016 rates for the 2017 to 2019 estimates. Annual incidence rates were used as input for the prevalence model that applied annual survivorship rates derived

SUBMITTER: Thorogood NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10406385 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature