Mohammad Alavinia
@mohammadalavin1
Biostatistics III, KITE Research Institute, Lyndhurst, Division of PM&R, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Focus on #SCI Research and #Statistics
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10-05-2018 15:29:12
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Early treatment of emotional wellbeing is important for patients in spinal cord injury rehab. SCI Quality Care Consortium worked to implement routine screenings for depression and anxiety at admission and discharge, helping to identify and manage those at risk.
SCI Quality Care Consortium is dedicated to equipping staff with the resources and training needed to support patients' emotional wellbeing (EWB). This year, 67% of staff reported having adequate skills for EWB service provision, an important increase from 44% last year.
SCI Quality Care Consortium aims to enable clinicians to have open discussions with people with #SpinalCordInjury about sexual health. Since 2020, we increased staff’s sexual health knowledge by 10% and provided access to a variety of online and in-person resources for continued learning.
To help facilitate sexual health discussions and education with patients, SCI Quality Care Consortium has developed updated sexual health materials that are now more gender inclusive, available in multiple languages, and feature new resources focusing on women’s health gaps.
Return to walking is a priority among people with #SpinalCordInjury. SCI Quality Care Consortium collected walking outcome assessments.This figure shows the increasing proportion of patients who improved enough with rehab to become independent in walking with/without a gait aid outside their home.
Wheelchair skills enable independence, community integration, and safety for patients with SCI/D. In 2023, SCI Quality Care Consortium's routine wheelchair skills assessments led to 5 hours of training for those at SWAT stage 2A and lower!
Did you know that a single pressure injury increases the mean cost of hospital length of stay by 9,580 CAD? SCI Quality Care Consortium promoted implementation of daily head-to-toe skin checks.
Pressure injuries impact the quality of life, morbidity and mortality of patients with #SpinalCordInjury. In 2023, SCI Quality Care Consortium reduced the rate of patients with open wounds at discharge to 24%, down from 29% in 2022.
SCI Quality Care Consortium has worked to align the methods and definitions of fever for patients with #SpinalCordInjury including those with inability to regulate core body temperature and a low baseline body temperature.