Modernization of a Large Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders Registry: The Veterans Administration Experience.
Jennifer L Sippel, Jennifer E Daly, Linda Poggensee, Kim D Ristau, Adam C Eberhart, Katharine Tam, Charlesnika T Evans, Betsy Lancaster, I Manosha Wickremasinghe, Stephen P Burns, Barry Goldstein, Bridget M Smith
PMID 36545529WHAT IT FOUND
The paper describes the technical modernization and validation of a large Veterans Affairs spinal cord injury registry.
It reports no patient outcomes, interventions, or clinical results that therapists could act on.
What this paper is
This paper describes the technical modernization and validation of a large Veterans Affairs spinal cord injury registry. It reports no patient outcomes, interventions, or clinical results that therapists could act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the reported accuracy rates of the registry algorithm as evidence of clinical effectiveness for any treatment. This is a health informatics paper about data collection, not a clinical trial or outcome study.