Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers and Long-Term Motor Score Recovery in Patients With Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
In this cohort study, PUs acquired during initial hospitalization after SCI were independently associated with poor long-term neurofunctional outcome. PUs constitute a modifiable factor associated with risk for worse long-term disability (recovery confounder) and elevated mortality.
Authors
- Marcel A. Kopp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6832-9599)
- Ralf Watzlawick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7886-3314)
- Peter Martus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5386-5732)
- Vieri Failli
- Felix W. Finkenstaedt
- Jan M. Schwab (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6784-4919)
- David M. Brienza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6335-2925)
- Oliver Schweizerhof (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-4818)
- Ulrike Grittner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2595-0224)
- Yuying Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4954-8192)
- Michael J. DeVivo
Institutions
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University Medical Center Freiburg (DE)
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- The Neurological Institute (US)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.44983
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.27