Association between the Functional Independence Measure following spinal cord injury and long-term outcomes

Study design: Retrospective cohort. Objectives: To estimate the association between the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) for spinal cord injury (SCI) patients at time of discharge from rehabilitation and long-term resource utilization, residential status and employment. The intention was to ass...

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Published in:Spinal cord 2012-10, Vol.50 (10), p.728-733
Main Authors: Cohen, J T, Marino, R J, Sacco, P, Terrin, N
Format: Article
Language:English
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Activities of Daily Living
Adult
Age
Aged
Anatomy
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Cerebrospinal fluid. Meninges. Spinal cord
Cohort Studies
Data processing
Databases, Factual - trends
Demography
Economics
Etiology
Female
Hospitalization - trends
Human Physiology
Humans
Injuries of the nervous system and the skull. Diseases due to physical agents
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Motivation
Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes)
Neurochemistry
Neurology
Neuropsychology
Neurosciences
Pharmaceuticals
Recovery of Function
Rehabilitation
Resource utilization
Retrospective Studies
review
Spinal Cord Injuries - epidemiology
Spinal Cord Injuries - physiopathology
Spinal Cord Injuries - therapy
Spinal cord injury
Statistics
Survival
Time Factors
Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
Treatment Outcome
Wounds
Young Adult
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Summary:Study design: Retrospective cohort. Objectives: To estimate the association between the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) for spinal cord injury (SCI) patients at time of discharge from rehabilitation and long-term resource utilization, residential status and employment. The intention was to assess the value of FIM for projecting economic burden in SCI. Setting: Federally designated spinal cord injury model system facilities throughout the USA. Methods: We analyzed data from the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center database ( n =14 620) (1988–2010), excluding subjects with: age
ISSN:1362-4393
1476-5624
DOI:10.1038/sc.2012.50