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Before discussing China's first total care unit for the spinal cord injured, it is important, though difficult due to lack of an epidemiological study, to give the incidence of spinal cord injury in China. The only seriously conducted study of this kind was that from the Beijing Area (Spinal Cord Injury Investigating Group in Beijing, 1988). Some of the results will be presented below.
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Wang, D., Wu, X., Shi, G. et al. China's first total care unit for the spinal cord injured. Spinal Cord 28, 318–320 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1990.41
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