SCI Quality Care Consortium

November is Osteoporosis Month in Canada! 🦴💪 Learn more about #bonehealth and #osteoporosis management in individuals with spinal cord injury with the Bare Bones Podcast: scifragments.ca/barebonespodca…

@SCIIEQCC staff are deeply engaged in implementing best practices. Our tools also facilitate effective goal setting and evaluation of goal attainment before and after a therapeutic outing.

@SCIIEQCC 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.

Practice improvements across Consortium sites have resulted in 92% of patients having their baseline temperature measured and documented in 2023.

Pressure injuries impact the quality of life, morbidity and mortality of patients with #SpinalCordInjury. In 2023, @SCIIEQCC reduced the rate of patients with open wounds at discharge to 24%, down from 29% in 2022.

Did you know that a single pressure injury increases the mean cost of hospital length of stay by 9,580 CAD? @SCIIEQCC promoted implementation of daily head-to-toe skin checks.

Wheelchair skills enable independence, community integration, and safety for patients with SCI/D. In 2023, @SCIIEQCC's routine wheelchair skills assessments led to 5 hours of training for those at SWAT stage 2A and lower!

Return to walking is a priority among people with #SpinalCordInjury. @SCIIEQCC 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.

To help facilitate sexual health discussions and education with patients, @SCIIEQCC 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.

@SCIIEQCC 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.

@SCIIEQCC 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.

Early treatment of emotional wellbeing is important for patients in spinal cord injury rehab. @SCIIEQCC worked to implement routine screenings for depression and anxiety at admission and discharge, helping to identify and manage those at risk.

Excited to launch our 2023 Implementation Casebook & 2023 Infographic Report! 🎉We collaborated with 13 tertiary rehabilitation sites, community partners, and people with lived experience across Canada to address #healthsystem challenges in 7 domains of care.

‼️October 2023 Network Meeting Recap‼️ We: 🌐 Welcomed 2 new sites to our network @SJCG_ThunderBay & @NL_HealthServ 👥 Announced a Patient Advisory Panel composed of 11 people with lived experience 💻NEXT Consortium Network Meeting January 17 2024

✨🎇Happy New Year everyone! Check out #ConsortiumWrapped for a few of our major highlights from 2023! youtube.com/watch?v=q-j3iH… @SCIIEQCC @praxis_sci @ONThealth @DrCathyCraven @stjosephslondon

📃⚕️Our 2022 Report underscores the vital need for SCI/D community health surveillance data over the lifespan. It enables tracking health/function changes, rehab care effectiveness & access to resources. Let's foster ongoing patient engagement and strengthen our SCI/D community!

📄Since 2019, we have increased frequency of skin checks, improving documentation & transition of responsibility for daily skin checks between patent and care provider. Learn more about our progress in our newest report: sciconsortium.ca/infographic-re… #SCI #SkinChecks #TissueIntegrity

Another day @CSCI_RA, another award-winning poster: "Exploring how bowel management post-rehab discharge influences quality of life when living with a traumatic spinal cord injury" by Shajaky Parameswaran, @TomWalden89, Louise Brisbois @DrCathyCraven Check it out now at 11:30am!

Join @WiestMatheus, Judith Gargaro, @DrCathyCraven, & Farnoosh Farahani this Thurs, Nov. 23 at 1:30-2:30 in Workshop 7A, Rm 200A at the #SCI Conference to learn more about some of the current inequities & gaps in #SCI care, particularly related to mobility, aging, & mental health

The 10th national @CSCI_RA conference is this week! Make sure to check out the impactful and award-winning work presented by our #SCI Consortium members covering: ✨Lessons learned from SCIIEQCC ✨Pressure injury prevention ✨Cardiometabolic health ✨Needs of marginalized groups