Epidemiology Table 5 Prevalence by Country

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Prevalence by Country
Author Year N	Geographic Area	Inclusion and exclusion criteria	Methodology used to determine prevalence	Prevalence rates by year
DeVivo et al. 1980 N=not given	USA	National Model Spinal Cord Injury Data Base	Life-expectancy tables of SCI patients 9-86 years at time of injury	906/million population
Griffin & O'Fallon 1985 N=154	Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA	1935-1981 Medical records-linkage system of the Rochester Project at the Mayo Clinic	Population denominators from census data Total prevalence rates are age- and sex-adjusted to 1970 U.S. white population	197/million population (1950) 211/million population (1960) 356/million population (1970) 473/million population (1980)
Kalsbeek et al. 1980 N=1,236 SCI=31	USA	1974 National Head and Spinal Cord Injury Survey	(Hospital admissions) / (Midyear estimates of population size for the contiguous United States in 1974 based on data from the United States Bureau of the Census)	50/million population
Harvey et al. 1990 N=505	USA	1988 Traumatic SCI population in both institutional and non-institutional settings	(Traumatic SCI survey) / 1988 population census data (US Bureau of the Census)	721/million population
Levi et al. 1995 N=353	Stockholm, Sweden	Stockholm SCI population	(Survey of regional registers) / (1991 Stockholm Regional Analysis Census)	227/million population
Dahlberg et al. 2005 N=152	Helsinki, Finland	1999 Adult citizens (18 years or more) of Helsinki who had permanent sensory or motor deficits because of traumatic SCI.	(Number of SCI patients found (n=152)) / (Cross-sectional population of Helsinki (n=546,000))	280/million population
Lakhey et al. 2005 N=233	Dharan, Nepal	1997 - 2001 Admission to BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences orthopedic ward	BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences orthopedic ward admissions and chart histories	92.5/million population (1997) 172.2/million population (1998) 364.4/million population (1999) 557.6/million population (2000) 849.8/million population (2001)
Razdan et al. 1994 N=616 SCI=15	Rural Kashmir, India	1986 Complete rural population of 63,645	House-to house screening and census, interview with neurologic team	236/million population 110.1/million population
O'Connor 2005 N=2959	Australia	1986-1997 Australian Spinal Cord Injury Register	Prevalence = (disease incidence)(disease duration)	681/million population