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SCI Guide Online - The Best Sites Chosen by You for You
New England Standard of SCI Care

SCI Guide Online - The Best Sites Chosen by You for You
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What’s So Special About the SCI Guide?

If you type "Spinal Cord Injury" into a search engine, you will get over 900,000 web pages about spinal cord injury! How do you search through all of this and find valid sources that give you what you need when you need it – without tearing your hair out?!?!

We created the SCI Guide because nothing out there gives the SCI community a place to go to get trusted, peer-reviewed info, and to decide for yourselves which sites are the best. The SCI Guide brings together the best websites on SCI chosen by you for you, and it’s easy to use. Nothing can take the place of the experiences of other people with SCI. When you find a great online resource, use the SCI Guide to spread the word and let other people know. When you need to find good info on any topic, use the SCI Guide to find the best sites based on real people’s feedback from the SCI community.

To start things out right, The New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center (NERSCIC) at Boston Medical Center assembled a team of people with SCI to review and rate websites, based on things like quality of information and user-friendliness. We picked people with all different ages, race/ethnicities, gender, experience and level of injury for the review team.

Features of the SCI Guide:

1. The first of its kind to give the SCI Community a place to recommend and find the best resources online, chosen by you for you.
   
   
2. A simple, easy-to-use listing of websites in all areas of living with SCI, including SCI: The Online Basics, geared towards the newly injured and their families.
   
   
3. You can recommend a new site, or review any site listed any time.
   
   
4. Directions for how to navigate each site with links to its best features, for new Internet users or anyone who doesn’t have time to get “lost”. 
   
   
5. Icons for quick reference: rating out of 5 stars, good for newly injured, SCI-specific, disability-specific.
   
   
6. To be listed, websites have to offer high quality information and resources that can be accessed directly online for free by anyone in the country. 
   
   
7. Comments directly quoted from our team of reviewers with SCI.
   
   
8. Top Sites for the Newly Injured (copyright, 2006).
   
   
9. Best of the Best Sites (copyright, 2006).
   
   

The development of this product was supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (Grant Numbers: H133N000024 & H133N060024)

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New England Standard of SCI Care

The New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center is a network of rehabilitation facilities in New England that includes the Center for Rehabilitation at Boston Medical
Center in Boston, MA, and Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, CT. Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, NH, is an affiliated facility contributing to our clinical and research activities. 

Sharing in a dedication to quality care for individuals with spinal cord injury, these facilities have developed the New England Standard of Care for Spinal Cord Injury; this means that we have developed a common set of standards so that patients will receive the same level of comprehensive, quality care at each of these facilities. The New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center Network enhances learning opportunities for clinicians and creates a consistent, proven treatment plan for patients. Our patients can rest assured they are receiving the highest level of care available.

For more information, contact: Claudine DeJoie

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