Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Thomas Jefferson University Department of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil. 2020 Summer;26(3):166-171. doi: 10.46292/sci2603-166.
Women are a growing proportion of individuals with SCI and have distinctive health needs spanning the life course that demand deliberate consideration and clinical expertise. Practitioners caring for women with SCI must incorporate broad medical knowledge of SCI physiology and health promotion for women, including differences in complication rates following SCI, and work collaboratively with rehabilitation, medical, and surgical specialists to optimize function and health for women with SCI. Clinical researchers must continue to perform population-based studies to best characterize the evolving needs of women with SCI and evaluate treatment efficacy and care delivery models to best serve this population.
女性在患有 SCI 的人群中占比不断增加，她们在整个生命周期中都有独特的健康需求，这需要慎重考虑和临床专业知识。照顾 SCI 女性患者的医生必须具备广泛的 SCI 生理学和女性健康促进知识，包括 SCI 后并发症发生率的差异，并与康复、医学和外科专家合作，以优化 SCI 女性的功能和健康。临床研究人员必须继续开展基于人群的研究，以充分描述 SCI 女性不断变化的需求，并评估治疗效果和护理提供模式，以更好地为这一人群服务。
