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Spinal Cord Injury
1990 Case Definition

Spinal Cord Injury
1990 Case Definition
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NOTE: A surveillance case definition is a set of uniform criteria used to define a disease for public health surveillance. Surveillance case definitions enable public health officials to classify and count cases consistently across reporting jurisdictions. Surveillance case definitions are not intended to be used by healthcare providers for making a clinical diagnosis or determining how to meet an individual patient’s health needs.

Clinical Description

An acute traumatic lesion of the neural elements in the spinal canal, resulting in temporary or permanent sensory deficit, motor deficit, or bowel/bladder dysfunction

Case Classification

Confirmed

A case that meets the clinical case definition

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Last Reviewed: April 16, 2021
Source: Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology