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Using Information Technology to Improve Rehab for Those with Traumatic Injuries

Objective: Develop an innovative real-time clinical reporting and query system derived from a research-based electronic point-of-care data collection system.

Design: Practice-based evidence, observational cohort study

Setting: The National Rehabiliation Hospital

Participants: Roughly 225 SCI patients

Interventions: No new interventions; examination of existing practice patterns.

Main outcome measures:

Results: Pending

Conclusions: Pending

Key Words: Traumatic injury; Spinal cord injury; Practice-based evidence

Principal Investigator: Gerben DeJong, PhD

Title: Senior Fellow

E-mail: gerben.dejong@medstar.net


Phone: 202-877-1960

Fax: 202-726-7521

Funding Source: Department of Defense (DoD) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology.



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