Changing Demographics and Injury Profile of New Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in the United States, 1972–2014

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1610-1619

  Chen, Yuying ^a   He, Yin ^a   DeVivo, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injuries; Trends

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84971619627     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.03.017     Document Type: Article

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