Definitions of recovery and reintegration across the first year: A qualitative study of perspectives of persons with spinal cord injury and caregivers.

Study Design: Longitudinal, qualitative cohort study.

Objectives: To understand how people with newly acquired spinal cord injury (PWS) and their support person (SP) define recovery and successful community reintegration (CR) across the first 12 months post-injury (mpi) and their satisfaction with the rate of recovery and reintegration experienced.

Setting: Academic and Veterans hospitals in Midwest USA.

Sexual Health and Women Living With Spinal Cord Injury: The Unheard Voice.

Women's sexual health within the context of sexual function and psychosocial dimensions while living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) has rarely been discussed separately from men living with a SCI or from a collective with other chronic conditions. To date, over 64,000 women in the U.S.

Development of Predictive Informatics Tool Using Electronic Health Records to Inform Personalized Evidence-Based Pressure Injury Management for Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury.

Background: Pressure injuries (PrI) are serious complications for many with spinal cord injury (SCI), significantly burdening health care systems, in particular the Veterans Health Administration. Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) provide recommendations. However, many risk factors span multiple domains.

Wheelchair Mobility-Related Injuries Due to Inadvertent Lower Extremity Displacement on Footplates: Analysis of the FDA MAUDE Database From 2014 to 2018.

Objectives: The aims of the study were to assess reports of wheelchair mobility-related injuries from inadvertent lower extremity displacement (ILED) on footplates, which were submitted to the Food and Drug Administration Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database during 2014-2018, characterize injury types, and evaluate MAUDE data quality.

Methods: A systematic MAUDE database review was performed. Annual reports were searched using keywords: (a) "power wheelchair" and "injury" and (b) "mechanical (also known as manual) wheelchair" and "injury.

Biomarkers for recurrent pressure injury risk in persons with spinal cord injury.

To investigate potential linkages between pressure injury (PrI) recurrence following spinal cord injury (SCI) and muscle-based and circulatory biomarkers, specifically fatty metabolites and inflammatory cytokines. Observational study. Tertiary Care Center.

What Lies Beneath: Why Some Pressure Injuries May Be Unpreventable for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury.

Objective: To investigate intersections between pressure injury (PrI) history, muscle composition, and tissue health responses under physiologically relevant loading conditions for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Repeated measures study design with annual follow-up for up to 3 years.

Setting: Tertiary care center.

Impact of interdisciplinary rounds in the spinal cord injury unit on relational coordination for patients with pressure injury: A pilot study.

Context/objective: Multiple medical specialties are often involved in the management of patients with both spinal cord injuries (SCI) and pressure injuries (PIs), sometimes leading to inadequate communication. Our Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital has an interdisciplinary team for PI patients in the SCI unit. This team conducts monthly bedside rounds and journal clubs; there is no similar team for patients with PIs outside the SCI unit.

Epidemiology of clostridium difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization in patients on a spinal cord injury unit.

Background/objective: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at risk of acquiring colonization with Clostridium difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) due to prolonged hospitalization and frequent antimicrobial use. We examined the frequency of stool, skin, and environmental contamination with C. difficile and VRE in hospitalized patients with SCl.