Abstract:
A hospital-based retrospective epidemiological study. The aim of this study was to examine the demographic and epidemiological characteristics of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in Guangdong to help health-related institutions develop measures to determine the best allocation of medical resources. TSCI is a highly disabling and deadly injury. Currently, there is little information regarding the epidemiological characteristics for TSCI in Guangdong. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of partial second-grade class-A hospitals (mainly capturing general city and county hospitals and some large-scale affiliated hospitals) in Guangdong province according to the International Classification of Disease Version 10 (ICD-10) and diagnostic code of TSCI.
Yang, Guo, Huang, Wang, Tang, Ye, Chen, Hu, (2017). Epidemiological Characteristics of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Guangdong, China. Spine, 2017 May;42(9):E555-E561. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27607312