Health Care Utilization in Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: The Importance of Multimorbidity and the Impact on Patient Outcomes | Zendy

Vanessa Noonan | Zendy; Nader Fallah | Zendy; So Park | Zendy; Frédéric Dumont | Zendy; Jean Leblond | Zendy; John Cobb | Zendy; Luc Noreau | Zendy

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Health Care Utilization in Persons with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: The Importance of Multimorbidity and the Impact on Patient Outcomes

Author(s) -

Vanessa Noonan,

Nader Fallah,

So Park,

Frédéric Dumont,

Jean Leblond,

John Cobb,

Luc Noreau

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1945-5763

pISSN - 1082-0744

DOI - 10.1310/sci2004-289

Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , spinal cord injury , mental health , rehabilitation , multivariate analysis , sf 36 , gerontology , physical therapy , family medicine , health related quality of life , psychiatry , spinal cord , nursing , disease

Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) living in the community have high health care utilization (HCU). To date, the interrelationships among multiple secondary health conditions (multimorbidity due to comorbidities and complications) that drive HCU and their impact on patient outcomes are unknown.

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