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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spinal Cord. 2016 Oct 18;55(2):172–179. doi: 10.1038/sc.2016.129

Table 2.

Demographic and SCI Information for All Patients and Subgroups of Paraplegia and Tetraplegia and Ambulatory Patients

Variable
All Patients
Paraplegia
Tetraplegia
Ambulatory
n 103 55 48 45
Gender (M/F) 75/28 (73/27) 38/17 (69/31) 37/11 (77/23) 33/12 (73/27)
Traumatic/nontraumatic 68/35 (66/34) 32/23 (58/42) 36/12 (75/25) 28/17 (62/38)
ASIA AIS, (A/B/C/D)†† 23/12/12/56 (22/12/12/54) 12/6/9/28 (22/11/16/51) 11/6/3/28 (23/13/6/58) 1/2/0/42 (2/4/0/93)
Age, years 49±17, 53, 69 48±18, 52, 68 50±17, 53, 60 50±16, 54, 66
LOS in rehabilitation, days 96±46, 93, 225 85±38, 76, 224 110±51, 116, 215 76±43, 65, 215
LOS in acute care, days 38±38, 23, 170 32±33, 20, 154 46±43, 30, 165 20±13, 16, 54

Values are n(%) or mean±SD, median, range; n= number of patients; ASIA= American Spinal Injury Association; AIS= ASIA Impairment Scale; LOS= Length Of Stay;

The Ambulatory group is composed of a subset of individuals from Paraplegia and Tetraplegia who were able to ambulate by the time of the discharge assessment;

††

While the AIS is valid for traumatic SCI, it has not been validated in non-traumatic SCI.