Predictors of hospital-acquired pressure injuries in patients with complete spinal cord injury: a retrospective case-control study.

Background: Despite current best practices, pressure injuries (PI) remain a devastating and prevalent hospital-acquired complication for patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCIs). This study examined associations between risk factors for PI development in patients with complete SCI, such as norepinephrine dose and duration, and other demographic factors or lesion characteristics.

Methods: This case-control study included adults with acute complete SCIs ASIA-A, who were admitted to a level-one trauma center between 2014-18.

Moving toward better health: exercise practice is associated with improved outcomes after spine surgery in people with degenerative lumbar conditions.

Background: Recovery and rehabilitation following surgery can take many months. Understanding what patients can do to facilitate recovery would be beneficial for spinal surgeons. This study sought to evaluate the impact of exercise practice, before and after surgery, on long-term outcomes of spine surgery in a robust clinical sample.

Responsiveness of standard spine outcome tools: do they measure up?

Objective: Over the past 2 decades, spine outcome research has become more standardized in response to recommendations from Deyo and others. By using the same generic and condition-specific patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures across studies, results are more easily compared. Given the challenges of maintaining high-quality data in clinical research studies, it would be important to evaluate the contribution of each PRO to confirm that it merits the respondent burden.