This month’s What’s New in Spine Surgery from the Journal and Bone and Joint Surgery highlights outcomes research funded by NIDRR:

Outcome Measures
The 2006 National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Spinal Cord Injury Measures Meeting continued to generate reports in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. Reports from 2008 focused on the evaluation of outcome measures and measures of functional recovery. One study provided guidelines for the evaluation of outcome measures for spinal cord injury, emphasizing the methods and principles important in a systematic review…

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