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A variety of rehabilitation treatments and treatment approaches exist that are aimed at improving the outcomes for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). However, it is not yet known which ones are most effective, or best for a particular outcome. To help provide the best possible rehabilitation after SCI, it is important that we examine how our services impact outcomes after discharge and use this information to maximize the quality and effectiveness of our programs.
As part of our efforts to advance the field of rehabilitation, CR is participating in the SCI REHAB Study -- a groundbreaking investigation that will examine the impact of inpatient rehabilitation on outcomes one year after traumatic SCI. The research is funded by the NIDRR as a supplement to the Spinal Cord Injury Model System grant funding. The study has three primary goals:
- To identify relationships between individual characteristics of people with SCI (level or completeness of injury, age, health, etc.) and rehabilitation outcomes,
- To determine which medical and rehabilitative treatments/services produce the best outcomes,
- To examine how individual characteristics and treatments interact with one another to affect outcomes.
Local Principal Investigator: Flora Hammond, MD
Other rehabilitation centers participating in this study are:
- Craig Hospital, Denver, Colo. (lead center)
- Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
- Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
- Shepherd Center, Atlanta
- National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, D.C.
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