Pediatric Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in the United States: A National Inpatient Analysis

Traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) is a debilitating neurological condition often associated with lifelong disability. Despite this, there are limited data on pediatric tSCI epidemiology in the United States. Our primary objective was to estimate tSCI hospitalization rates among children, including...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation 2022-01, Vol.28 (1), p.1-12
Hauptverfasser:	Crispo, James A G, Liu, Lisa J W, Noonan, Vanessa K, Thorogood, Nancy P, Kwon, Brian K, Dvorak, Marcel F, Thibault, Dylan, Willis, Allison, Cragg, Jacquelyn J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accidents, Traffic Age Black or African American Black People Child Datasets Etiology Family income Firearms Health care Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Incidence Inpatients Male Pediatrics Rehabilitation Sociodemographics Software Spinal cord injuries Spinal Cord Injuries - epidemiology United States - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	Traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) is a debilitating neurological condition often associated with lifelong disability. Despite this, there are limited data on pediatric tSCI epidemiology in the United States. Our primary objective was to estimate tSCI hospitalization rates among children, including by age, sex, and race. Secondary objectives were to characterize tSCI hospitalizations and examine associations between sociodemographic characteristics and tSCI etiology. We used the 2016 Kids' Inpatient Database to examine tSCI hospitalizations among children (
ISSN:	1082-0744 1945-5763 1945-5763
DOI:	10.46292/sci21-00047