Abstract: Objective To investigate the epidemiology characteristics of spinal cord injury(SCI)in hospital.Methods1264 inpatients with SCI during April 1992～August 2006 were analyzed retrospectively.Results and Conclusion56.1% of the cases were 20～40 years old.Traffic trauma(44.3%)and fall injury(21.8%)were the main causes of SCI.The incidences of affected segments were:cervical segments 31.5%,thoracolumbar 28.1%,and thoracic 21.3%.56.7% were complete injury and 43.3% were incomplete.The most frequent complication of SCI were:urinary tract infection,pressure sore and bladder lithiasis.The expenditure of hospitalization was provided by oneself(52.5%),public medicalcare(33.1%),only 4.1% by hospitalization insurance.

Key words: spinal cord injury, epidemiology, survey