UNASSIGNED: Objectives (1) to inform the development of health system quality indicators for traumatic and non-traumatic @entity1566 from acute care admission to community care discharge using administrative data, and (2) to examine characteristics and differences in care among type of care facility, and type of pathology using administrative data. Design Retrospective cohort study using administrative health data. Setting Ontario, Canada. @entity1 Using administrative health data, we used International Classification codes 10(th) version Canadian Edition to identify incident cases of @entity1566 from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2012. Results We identified 7,693 cases in our cohort, of whom 1,537 (20.0%) were categorized as traumatic spinal cord (TSCI) and 6,156 (80.0%) as non-traumatic (NTSCI). Of those identified with NTSCI, more than half (54.0%) were diagnosed with either @entity5011 and @entity15 (n  =  3,326). More individuals admitted to a @entity130 /spine center were seen by an orthopedic surgeon or a neurosurgeon (20.3% compared to 5.6% for NTSCI; 77.7% compared to 24.9% for TSCI). Only 25.7% (n  =  724) of the NTSCI cohort were admitted to a rehabilitation facility from a @entity130 /spine center, compared to 58.9% (n  =  754) of those with TSCI. Conclusions Important challenges in data completeness and utility were identified. Province wide processes to flag incomplete data and provision of incentives for comprehensive data are urgently needed to develop quality indicators across the care continuum. Consensus on the coding for NTSCI for the purposes of developing health system indicators is required.

Developing quality of care indicators for @entity1 with traumatic and non-traumatic @entity1566 ( XXXX ): A feasibility study using administrative health data.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Participants'] @entity5011 :: ('MESH:D020275', 'Disease') :: ['Guillain Barr   syndrome'] @entity1566 :: ('MESH:D013119', 'Disease') :: ['spinal cord injury', 'SCI'] @entity15 :: ('MESH:D009103', 'Disease') :: ['Multiple Sclerosis'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['trauma']
@entity1566 :: (MESH:D013119,Disease) :: ['SCI']
