ArticleSpinal cord2022
Rehabilitation length of stay and functional improvement among patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.
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- Animal-Assisted Activities for Patients with Central Nervous System Disease in Acute Rehabilitation Setting.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Identification of predictive factors and development of a prediction model for rehabilitation facility discharge in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury: a retrospective analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.Journal of trauma and injury · 2025Article
- Predicting inpatient rehabilitation length of stay for adults with traumatic spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025Article
- Interaction between injury severity and rehabilitation intervention on independence in activities of daily living in persons with spinal cord injury.Spinal cord · 2025Observational
- How recovery influences community reintegration: perspectives of persons with spinal cord injury and their support persons.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Assessing functional recovery for individuals with spinal cord injury post-discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2024Article
- Evaluating associations between trauma-related characteristics and functional recovery in individuals with spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2024Article
- Long-term assessment of the functional independence measure in sports-related spinal cord injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2024Article
- Facilitators and barriers in the rehabilitation process described by persons with spinal cord injury: a deductive-inductive analysis from the Finnish spinal cord injury study.Annals of medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
STUDY
designRetrospective cohort study.
objectiveInvestigate the association between rehabilitation length of stay (LOS) and motor FIM
settingSeventeen SCI Model Systems (SCIMS) centers in the United States.
methodsA total of 3386 patients with traumatic SCI enrolled in the SCIMS Database from 2011 to 2018. The main outcome measure was the mean change in mFIM (12 items) between rehabilitation admission and discharge by twelve neurological categories (C1-C4 American Spinal Injury Association impairment scale (AIS) A-B, AIS C, AIS D, and C5-C8 AIS A-B, AIS C, AIS D, and T1-T10 AIS A-B, AIS C, AIS D, and T11-S3 AIS A-B, C, D). Linear regression models were applied to estimate changes across rehabilitation LOS groups (shortest LOS, quarter2, quarter3, and longest LOS) after adjusting for covariables for each neurological category.
resultsThe mean age of study patients was 44.5 years. Patients were predominantly men (78.5%), non-Hispanic white (64.8%), and had private insurance (57.1%). The median LOS was 42 days across the entire sample. Longer LOS was associated with a higher mFIM score compared to the shortest LOS among patients with C1-C4 AIS D; C5-C8 AIS D; T1-T10 AIS A-B; and T11-S3 AIS A-B, C, and D after adjusting for demographics and clinical characteristics.
conclusionAmong patients with C1-C4 AIS D; C5-C8 AIS D; T1-T10 AIS A-B; and T11-S3 AIS A-B, C, and D injuries, those with longer rehabilitation stays tended to have more motor function improvement.
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