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The Menzies Foundation in Australia recently sponsored two technical meetings designed to reduce the incidence of spinal cord injury in the Australia-New Zealand area. From these meetings came unanimous support for the creation of a national Register to develop data and programmes for the prevention of spinal cord injury. The Foundation has since provided further funds for a Planning Committee to bring the Register into being. These developments are described.
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Refshauge W J, (ed) 1988 Towards a registry for the prevention of spinal cord injury. Menzies Foundation, Melbourne.
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Wigglesworth, E. Towards prevention of spinal cord injury: the role of a national register. Spinal Cord 26, 389–392 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1988.59
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1988.59