Bowel care practices in chronic spinal cord injury patients
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0003-9993(98)90201-5
Bowel care practices in chronic spinal cord injury patients
Abstract
Objective: To determine current characteristics of bowel care practices of chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) patients.
Design: Prospective interview and examination of 100 SCI patients injured for more than 1 year.
Setting: Freestanding rehabilitation outpatient SCI center.
Participants: One hundred chronic SCI patients.
Results: The following bowel program characteristics were found: alternate-day programs were most common; most subjects performed their programs in the morning; and tetraplegic subjects performed their programs less often, used suppositories more often, required greater assistance, and took longer to complete their programs.
Conclusions: Bowel dysfunction in chronic SCI need not be associated with complications in the majority of cases.
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