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Survey of expert opinion, feedback and final consensus. OBJECTIVES:
To describe the development of the International Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Spinal
Column Injury Basic Data Set.Setting:International working group. METHODS: A
committee of experts was established to select and define data elements. The data
set was then disseminated to the appropriate committees and organizations for
comment. All suggested revisions were considered and the final version was
endorsed by both the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) and the American
Spinal Injury Association (ASIA). RESULTS: The data set consists of seven
variables: (1) penetrating or blunt injury, (2) spinal column injury(ies), (3)
single or multiple level spinal column injury(ies), (4) spinal column injury
level number, (5) spinal column injury level, (6) disc and/or posterior
ligamentous complex injury and (7) traumatic translation. All variables are coded
using numbers or characters. For variables 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7, response
categories are assigned a numeric point score. Variable 5 assigns both characters
and numbers to identify level(s) of spinal injured vertebra(e). When there are
several distinct and separate levels of injury, then each one is described using
variables 4 through 7. CONCLUSION: The International SCI Spinal Column Injury
Basic Data Set was developed to facilitate comparisons of spinal column injury
data among studies, centres and countries. This data set is part of the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Common Data Element project, and
tools are now available to assist investigators in collecting this data in their
SCI clinical studies.

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