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. 2022 Dec 21;22:1565. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08847-w

Table 3.

Percent of rehabilitation facilities by country income level meeting each indicator

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

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

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