Spinal cord
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Multicenter Study
Burden of spinal cord injury-related neuropathic pain in the United States: retrospective chart review and cross-sectional survey.
Cross-sectional, observational study. ⋯ This study was supported by Pfizer, Inc.
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Postal surveys. ⋯ The Spanish version of the MPI-SCI is adequate for evaluating chronic pain impact following SCI in a Spanish-speaking population. Future studies should include additional measures of pain-related support in the Spanish-speaking SCI population.
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Comparative Study
Traumatic versus non-traumatic spinal cord injuries: are there differential rehabilitation outcomes?
Retrospective case review. ⋯ Patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries and patients with non-traumatic spinal cord injuries benefitted from the same rehabilitation programme in a spinal injury centre, making significant improvements in all ten rehabilitation domains measured, suggesting that it is effective to admit and rehabilitate patients with injuries resulting from both traumatic and non-traumatic aetiologies in the same specialised setting.
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Cross-sectional survey. ⋯ Resilience is an important psychological process in the longer-term management of SCI which can be promoted by targeting rehabilitation interventions towards mood management in addition to self efficacy beliefs. Larger-scale research will help to validate these results.
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Retrospective Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) study. ⋯ Our analysis demonstrates that SCI patients are more at risk for ARDS/ALI, which carries a significantly higher risk of mortality.