Right care, right time, right place: improving outcomes for people with spinal cord injury through early access to intervention and improved access to specialised care: study protocol

Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating condition impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing, functioning and independence, social participation and quality of life of the injured person. In Australia, there are approximately 15 new cases per million population per year; economic burden e...

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Published in:BMC health services research 2014-12, Vol.14 (1), p.600-600, Article 600
Main Authors: Middleton, James M, Sharwood, Lisa N, Cameron, Peter, Middleton, Paul M, Harrison, James E, Brown, Doug, McClure, Rod, Smith, Karen, Muecke, Sandy, Healy, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
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Australia
Care and treatment
Clinical outcomes
Colleges & universities
Critical Care
Emergency medical care
Female
Health care
Health services
Health Services Accessibility
Homeopathy
Hospitals
Humans
Length of stay
Life expectancy
Male
Materia medica and therapeutics
Medical care
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Middle Aged
Neurophysiology
Neurosciences
New South Wales
Patient Discharge
Patient outcomes
Patients
Population
Pressure ulcers
Preventive medicine
Prospective Studies
Quality management
Quality of Health Care
Quality of Life
Rehabilitation
Specialization
Spinal cord injuries
Spinal Cord Injuries - therapy
Study Protocol
Therapeutics
Trauma
Treatment Outcome
Victoria
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Summary:Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating condition impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing, functioning and independence, social participation and quality of life of the injured person. In Australia, there are approximately 15 new cases per million population per year; economic burden estimates suggest 2 billion dollars annually. For optimal patient outcomes expert consensus recommends expeditious transfer ("
ISSN:1472-6963
1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/s12913-014-0600-7