Statewide investigation of medically attended adverse health conditions of persons with spinal cord injury

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-231

  Pickelsimer, Elisabeth ^a   Shiroma, Eric J ^b   Wilson, Dulaney A ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Incidence; Prevalence; Secondary complications, age, gender; Spinal cord injuries, traumatic

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTEREMIA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISLOCATION; DUODENITIS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTOXICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY INFECTION; LIMB FRACTURE; LUNG COLLAPSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; SKIN ULCER; SLEEP DISORDER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPRAIN; THORAX PAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; COMPLICATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956124227     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2010.11689699     Document Type: Article

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