Evaluating associations between trauma-related characteristics and functional recovery in individuals with spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the associations between trauma variables, acute phase-related variables, and patient-level characteristics with functional recovery during inpatient rehabilitation for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The associations were evaluated by linking individuals' records between the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Outcomes Study and the National SCI Model Systems databases.

Design

Retrospective cohort analysis.

Setting

Two SCI Model Centers in Pennsylvania, United States.

Methods

We used a record linkage toolkit in Python to link 735 individuals with traumatic SCI between the databases. The percentage for true-match and error were 92.0% and 0.1%, respectively. The functional recovery during inpatient rehabilitation was determined in 604 i

SUBMITTER: Hiremath SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11218572 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature