The Influence of Time from Injury to Surgery on Motor Recovery and Length of Hospital Stay in Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: An Observational Canadian Cohort Study

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 645-654

  Dvorak, Marcel F ^a   Noonan, Vanessa K ^a,b   Fallah, Nader ^a,b   Fisher, Charles G ^a   Finkelstein, Joel ^c   Kwon, Brian K ^a   Rivers, Carly S ^b   Ahn, Henry ^d   Paquet, Jérôme ^e   Tsai, Eve C ^f   Townson, Andrea ^a   Attabib, Najmedden ^g,h   Bailey, Christopher S ⁱ   Christie, Sean D ^g   Drew, Brian ^j,k   Fourney, Daryl R ^l   Fox, Richard ^m   Hurlbert, R John ⁿ   Johnson, Michael G ^o   Linassi, A G ^p   Parent, Stefan ^q,r   Fehlings, Michael G ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RICK HANSEN INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^j Hamilton General Division   (Canada)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^m ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^q HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^r UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

clinical trials; spinal cord injury; surgical decompression; timing of surgery; translational research

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION IMPAIRMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CERVICAL SPINE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA REGRESSION ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; INJURY SCALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928729895     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3632     Document Type: Article

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