Developing and Evaluating Data Infrastructure and Implementation Tools to Support Cardiometabolic Disease Indicator Data Collection.

Background: Assessment of aerobic exercise (AE) and lipid profiles among individuals with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) is critical for cardiometabolic disease (CMD) risk estimation.

Objectives: To utilize an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for extracting indicator data and education tools to enable routine CMD indicator data collection in inpatient/outpatient settings, and to describe and evaluate the recall of AE levels and lipid profile assessment completion rates across care settings among adults with subacute and chronic SCI/D.

Methods: A cross-sectional convenience sample of patients affiliated with University Health Network's SCI/D rehabilitation program and outpatients affiliated with SCI Ontario participated.

Central Recruitment: A process for engaging and recruiting individuals with spinal cord injury/disease in research at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.

Context: Insufficient recruitment is a barrier to research and limits statistical power. We describe an initiative aimed to streamline recruitment and consent processes for inpatients with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) via implementation of a Central Recruitment (CR) process. The CR process adhered to ethical standards, reduced participant burden, and maximized research participation.

Lessons learned from the pilot study of an orthostatic hypotension intervention in the subacute phase following spinal cord injury.

: Following spinal cord injury (SCI) at the cervical or upper-thoracic level, orthostatic hypotension (OH) is observed in 13-100% of patients. This study aimed to test the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial combining a dynamic tilt-table (Erigo) and functional electrical stimulation (FES) to mitigate OH symptoms in the subacute phase after SCI. : Pilot study.