Validation of the Dutch clinical prediction rule for ambulation outcomes in an inpatient setting following traumatic spinal cord injury

Abstract

Study design:Retrospective study.Objectives: To determine the accuracy of a previously described Dutch clinical prediction rule for ambulation outcome in routine clinical practice.Setting:Adult (≥18 years) patients who were admitted to the Austin Hospital with a traumatic spinal cord injury between January 2006 and August 2014.Methods:Data from medical records were extracted to determine the score of the Dutch clinical ambulation prediction rule proposed by van Middendorp et al. in 2011. A receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curve was generated to investigate the performance of the prediction rule. Univariate analyses were performed to investigate which factors significantly influence a..