What Is the Pathway to the Best Model of Care for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury? Evidence-Based Guidance.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) experience lifelong physical and emotional health impacts, needing specialized care that is complex to navigate. The non-standardized care pathways used by different jurisdictions to address these needs lead to care inequities and poor health outcomes.

Purpose

To develop an evidence-based integrated tSCI Care Pathway, from time of injury to life in the community.

Methods and analysis

Eighty key partners engaged in planning, providing, and receiving tSCI care (1) identified existing guidelines, pathways, and care models; (2) created the tSCI Care Pathway with key elements or building blocks ("the what"), not specific recommendations ("the how") for each care stage (Acute, Rehabilitation, and Community), with

SUBMITTER: Wiest MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759857 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature