Healthcare Costs of Pressure Injuries among Patients with a Spinal Cord Injury within a Dutch Rehabilitation Center.

Objective: To assess the healthcare costs of pressure injuries (PIs) among patients with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in a Dutch rehabilitation center and determine if those costs were associated with patients' age or sex.

Methods: The direct healthcare costs of PIs were estimated using data from electronic health records of a Dutch rehabilitation center. This dataset contained demographic, clinical, and resource use information of all patients with an SCI or a PI who were treated at the rehabilitation center because of a PI between 2009 and 2022.

Obesity in wheelchair users with long-standing spinal cord injury: prevalence and associations with time since injury and physical activity.

Study Design: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the ALLRISC cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of obesity and its association with time since injury (TSI) and physical activity (PA) in wheelchair users with long-standing (TSI > 10 years) spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Community, The Netherlands.

Predicting resting energy expenditure in people with chronic spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The aims of this study were (1) to validate the two recently developed SCI-specific REE equations; (2) to develop new prediction equations to predict REE in a general population with SCI.

Setting: University, the Netherlands.

Compliance and cost control for cryopreservation of cellular starting materials: An industry perspective.

Over the last decade, cancer immunotherapy has progressed from an academically interesting field to one of the most promising forms of new treatments in which not the cancer but the immune system is treated. In particular, genetic modification for purposeful redirection of autologous T cells is providing hope to many treatment-resistant patients. This personalized form of medicine is radically different from more traditional oncologic drugs.

Electrical stimulation to prevent recurring pressure ulcers in individuals with a spinal cord injury compared to usual care: the Spinal Cord Injury PREssure VOLTage (SCI PREVOLT) study protocol.

Background: Pressure ulcers (PUs) on the buttocks are among the most common secondary complications in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). PUs can result from sitting for extended periods, disuse atrophy, increased sitting pressure and reduced circulation. Compared with usual care, activation of paralysed muscles using electrical stimulation (ES) has been shown to markedly increase paralysed muscle mass, improve circulation of skin and muscle and improve sitting pressure distribution.