The SCIRehab Project

There is a very interesting on-going project examining the rehabilitation process.

Often research looks at rehabilitation of spinal cord injury (SCI) as a whole rather than specifics such as therapy interventions, medical procedures, patient education, or counseling. The SCIRehab project uses practice-based evidence (PBE) research to identify which rehabilitation interventions are associated with positive outcomes in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The project provides information on all rehabilitation disciplines and also adds to guidelines for clinical decision-making. Including 1,200 participants having SCI in 6 varying US inpatient rehabilitation facilities, the SCIRehab project allows clinicians to document their interventions in handheld digital assistants after seeing their patients. After characteristics of the patient, injury and treatment are taken from these records, process elements  will be related to outcomes.

To learn more about this interesting work, visit the SCIRehab’s homepage or read up on their work-to-date (below):

Papers from the project:

1. Group physical therapy during inpatient rehabilitation for acute spinal cord injury: findings from the SCIRehab Study.

2. The SCIRehab project: social work and case management. Social work and case management treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

3. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Nursing bedside education and care management time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

4. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Psychology treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

5. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Speech-language pathology treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation: the SCIRehab project.

6. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Therapeutic recreation treatment time during inpatient rehabilitation.

7. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Occupational therapy treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

8. The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Physical therapy treatment time during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

9.The SCIRehab project: treatment time spent in SCI rehabilitation. Inpatient treatment time across disciplines in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

10. The SCIRehab project: analyzing multidisciplinary inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation treatment–second phase.

11. SCIRehab: a model for rehabilitation research using comprehensive person, process and outcome data.

12. SCIRehab Project series: the social work/case management taxonomy.

13. SCIRehab Project series: the supplemental nursing taxonomy.

14. SCIRehab Project series: the psychology taxonomy.

15. SCIRehab Project series: the speech language pathology taxonomy.

16. SCIRehab Project series: the therapeutic recreation taxonomy.

17. SCIRehab Project series: the occupational therapy taxonomy.

18. SCIRehab Project series: the physical therapy taxonomy.

19. Clinical taxonomy development and application in spinal cord injury research: the SCIRehab Project.

20. New approach to study the contents and outcomes of spinal cord injury rehabilitation: the SCIRehab Project.

21. The SCIRehab Project: classification and quantification of spinal cord injury rehabilitation treatments. Preface.