Incidence and Prevalence of Spinal Cord Injury in Canada: A National Perspective
Author(s) -
Vanessa K. Noonan,
Matthew Fingas,
Angela Farry,
David Baxter,
Anoushka Singh,
Michael G. Fehlings,
Marcel F. Dvorak
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000336014
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , demography , population , cohort , paraplegia , epidemiology , pediatrics , spinal cord , environmental health , psychiatry , physics , sociology , optics
Despite decades of research, there are no national estimates of the incidence or prevalence of spinal cord injury (SCI) in Canada. Our objective was to utilize the best available data to estimate the incidence and prevalence of traumatic SCI (TSCI) and non-traumatic SCI (NTSCI) in Canada for 2010.
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