The stockholm spinal cord injury study: 2. associations between clinical patient characteristics and post-acute medical problems

Paraplegia

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 585-594

  Levi, R ^a,b   Hultling, C ^a   Seiger, A ^a,b  

^a Solberga SCI Research Project ^*  (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complications; Epidemiology; Neurological deterioration; Outcome; Spinal cord injury; Stockholm spinal cord injury study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE MALFORMATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PAIN; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029081598     PISSN: 00311758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1995.125     Document Type: Article

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