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ArticleNeurology. Clinical practice2021

Health Care Disparities Add Insult to Spinal Cord Injury.

Miguel X Escalon, Amy Houtrow, Felicia Skelton, Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez

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Article in Neurology. Clinical practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
  2. Development and validation of a nomogram for prediction of survival in adolescent spinal cord injury patients.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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  3. Article
  4. Spinal cord injury in sexual and gender minority individuals.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miguel X EscalonDepartment of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York (MXE), NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AH), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Innovations in Quality (FS), Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (FS), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MV-G), Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.ORCID 0000-0001-7080-4360
Amy HoutrowDepartment of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York (MXE), NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AH), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Innovations in Quality (FS), Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (FS), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MV-G), Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.ORCID 0000-0003-2906-8896
Felicia SkeltonDepartment of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York (MXE), NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AH), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Innovations in Quality (FS), Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (FS), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MV-G), Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
Monica Verduzco-GutierrezDepartment of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York (MXE), NY; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AH), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Center for Innovations in Quality (FS), Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX; H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (FS), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MV-G), Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.ORCID 0000-0003-0964-5908
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center · US

Funding

HSRD VA IK2 HX002484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors describe the disparities and increased risk of traumatic spinal cord injury Black Americans face because of violence. This article should serve as a realization of these inequities and as a call to action to improve the equity of rehabilitation services in this population to improve outcomes.

Identifiers

PMID34992973
PMCPMC8723932
OpenAlexW3152857130

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