Construction and Verification of Urinary Tract Infection Prediction Model for Hospitalized Rehabilitation Patients with Spinal Cord Injury.

Objective: To explore the influencing factors of urinary tract infection (UTI) in hospitalized patients with spinal cord injury and to construct and verify the nomogram prediction model.

Methods: This study is a retrospective cohort study. From January 2017 to March 2022, 558 patients with spinal cord injury admitted to the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of a tertiary hospital in Anhui Province, China, were selected as the research objects, and they were randomly divided into training group (n = 390) and verification group (n = 168) according to the ratio of 7:3, and clinical data including socio-demographic characteristics, disease-related data, and laboratory examination data were collected.