Two multicentre observational studies started in October 2005 to collect the outcome data of the acute and chronic spinal cord injuries over a period of one year or 6 months in
Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The study completed at the end of 2008.
Study Sites (
listed in no particular order):
Beijing Army General Hospital (Beijing), Beijing Xishan
Hospital (Beijing), Peking University People's Hospital (Beijing), China Rehabilitation
Research Center (Beijing), Second Military Medical University Changhai Hospital
(Shanghai), Shanghai East Hospital (Shanghai), Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital
(Shanghai), Sun Yat-sen University Second Hospital (Guangzhou), Southern Medical University Nanfang Hospital (Guangzhou), Ningbo Second Hospital (Ningbo), Fourth Military
Medical University Xijing Hospital (Xi'an), Xi'an Jiaotong University
Second Hospital (Xi'an), Chengdu Army Kunming General Hospital (Kunming), the University
of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Shantou University
First Hospital (Shantou), Tianjin Medical University General Hospital (Tianjin), Fujian Medical
Univeristy First Affiliated Hospital (Fuzhou), Third Military Medical University
Xinqiao Hospital (Chongqing), China Medical University Hospital (Taichung), Buddhist
Tzu Chi General Hospital (Hualien).
Principal Investigators (
listed in no particular order): Tiansheng SUN, Hongyun HUANG, Baoguo JIANG, Jianjun LI, Shaocheng ZHANG, Jun TAN, Tongyi CHEN, Huiyong SHEN, Dadi JIN, Qingjiang PANG, Zhuojing LUO, Xijing HE, Hui ZHU, Yat-wah Wong, Wai-sang POON, Fengren ZHENG, Shiqing FENG, Jianhua LIN, Yue ZHOU, Shinn-zong LIN and Tzu-Yung CHEN
No. of Subjects enrolled: 162 patients with acute SCI and 337 patients with chronic SCI
Sponsorship: the University of Hong Kong Spinal Cord Injury Fund (HKUSCIFund)
These studies established a solid
foundation for the ChinaSCINet to perform clinical trials to test
promising SCI therapies following international standards and
guidelines. The data has been used to design the trials with intervention.
For more information, please refer to the clinicaltrials.gov:
NCT00517374 and
NCT00592722
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