Modeling the Patient Journey from Injury to Community Reintegration for Persons with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in a Canadian Centre

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Santos, Argelio ^a,c   Gurling, James ^b   Dvorak, Marcel F ^c   Noonan, Vanessa K ^a,c   Fehlings, Michael G ^d   Burns, Anthony S ^d   Lewis, Rachel ^e   Soril, Lesley ^a   Fallah, Nader ^a,c   Street, John T ^c   Bélanger, Lise ^f   Townson, Andrea ^c   Liang, Liping ^g   Atkins, Derek ^e  

^a RICK HANSEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b FRASER HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; DECUBITUS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT CARE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883412549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072552     Document Type: Article

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