• Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini, Seyed Behnam Jazayeri, Samuel Berchi Kankam, Zahra Ghodsi, Vali Baigi, Arman Zeinaddini Meymand, Ahmad Pourrashidi, Zahra Azadmanjir, Mohammad Dashtkoohi, Kazem Zendehdel, Habibollah Pirnejad, Esmaeil Fakharian, Gerard M O'Reilly, Alex R Vaccaro, Aidin Shakeri, Shahrokh Yousefzadeh-Chabok, Mohammadreza Babaei, Leila Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati, Abdolkarim Haji Ghadery, Armin Aryannejad, Seyed Mohammad Piri, Amir Azarhomayoun, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Salman Daliri, Mohammad Sajjad Lotfi, Yasaman Pourandish, Laleh Bagheri, and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar.
• Department of Neurosurgery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khoram-Abad, Iran.
• Eur Spine J. 2024 Apr 1; 33 (4): 158515961585-1596.

PurposeThis study aimed to implement the Quality of Care (QoC) Assessment Tool from the National Spinal Cord/Column Injury Registry of Iran (NSCIR-IR) to map the current state of in-hospital QoC of individuals with Traumatic Spinal Column and Cord Injuries (TSCCI).MethodsThe QoC Assessment Tool, developed from a scoping review of the literature, was implemented in NSCIR-IR. We collected the required data from two primary sources. Questions regarding health system structures and care processes were completed by the registrar nurse reviewing the hospital records. Questions regarding patient outcomes were gathered through patient interviews.ResultsWe registered 2812 patients with TSCCI over six years from eight referral hospitals in NSCIR-IR. The median length of stay in the general hospital and intensive care unit was four and five days, respectively. During hospitalization 4.2% of patients developed pressure ulcers, 83.5% of patients reported satisfactory pain control and none had symptomatic urinary tract infections. 100%, 80%, and 90% of SCI registration centers had 24/7 access to CT scans, MRI scans, and operating rooms, respectively. Only 18.8% of patients who needed surgery underwent a surgical operation in the first 24 h after admission. In-hospital mortality rate for patients with SCI was 19.3%.ConclusionOur study showed that the current in-hospital care of our patients with TSCCI is acceptable in terms of pain control, structure and length of stay and poor regarding in-hospital mortality rate and timeliness. We must continue to work on lowering rates of pressure sores, as well as delays in decompression surgery and fatalities.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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