Fig. 2. CONSORT flow chart presents filter steps applied to the Australian Admitted Patient Care (APC) and Spinal Cord Injury Registry (ASCIR) repositories to examine fidelity to detect traumatic new index SCI/D cases (Aim 2).

Level 1= unadjusted APC (R); Level 2 = International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) adjusted APC (R); and Level 3 = Medical Evidence Subject Heading (MeSH) (“fracture”; “injuries”) adjusted ICD-10-APC (centre-R); Level 4 = Data Element (case-mix coded “acute”) adjusted MeSH-ICD-10-APC (R). ASCIR Level 1= unadjusted ASCIR (L); Level 2= adjusted ASCIR (“traumatic”) (far-L). Data are expressed as: i) counts (N; solid line); and ii) APC (N; frequency difference [Δ%]) versus ASCIR (dashed line).