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Table 3 Percent of rehabilitation facilities by country income level meeting each indicator

From: An international survey of the structure and process of care for traumatic spinal cord injury in acute and rehabilitation facilities: lessons learned from a pilot study

Indicators

HIC

N = 19

LMIC

N = 7

Specialized care

 Have a multidisciplinary team (s)

74

43

 Have a team of clinical staff with SCI expertise (s)

89

86

Timeliness & transition

 Have facilities for patients to wait for home renovation (s)

37

29

 Provide SCI medical follow-up (p)

79

86

 Provide SCI rehabilitation follow-up (p)

95

71

 Have a direct relationship between rehab program and acute facilities (p)

100

86

Patient-centeredness

 Have a peer counsellor (s)

58

43

 Provide out-patient rehabilitation (p)

89

86

 Provide services for detection and treatment for mental health (p)

95

100

 Have a psychologist (s)

100

71

Capacity to advance evidence-based care

 Make regular use of data to inform SCI care (p)

58

43

 Practice of care standardized to recommendations/guidelines (p)

79

43

 Collect data on service delivery (p)

84

71

  1. Structure and process indicators are represented by (s) and (p), respectively. Italic represents “hard to meet” indicators. HIC High-income countries, LMIC Low- and middle-income countries, SCI spinal cord injury