Table 3.
Percent of rehabilitation facilities by country income level meeting each indicator
Indicators | HIC N = 19 |
LMIC N = 7 |
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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 |
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