Two-year survival following discharge from hospital after spinal cord injury in Bangladesh

Study design Mixed retrospective-prospective cohort study. Objectives To determine 2-year survival following discharge from hospital after spinal cord injury in Bangladesh. Setting Bangladesh. Methods Medical records were used to identify all patients admitted in 2011 with a recent spinal cord injury to the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed, a large Bangladeshi hospital that specialises in care of people with spinal cord injury. Patients or their families were subsequently visited or contacted by telephone in 2014. Vital status and, where relevant, date and cause of death were determined by verbal autopsy. Results 350 of 371 people admitted with a recent spinal cord injury in 2011 were discharged alive from hospital. All but eleven were accounted for two years after discharge…