The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center

The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with spinal cord injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). The MSKTC is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and is operated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The MSKTC is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. The MSKTC offers free resources to help with rehabilitation, daily living, relationships, and social and emotional issues. The MSKTC ensures that useful health information gets to the people who need it, by meeting information needs to improve the health and quality of life of individuals with TBI and SCI. This involves understanding those needs and developing information resources and products that meet them. MSKTC conducts research, develops information materials, and creates innovative ways for important and timely information to reach those audiences utilizing the following format;

Systematic Reviews

A systematic review is a formal, organized method for compiling, evaluating and summarizing all of the published research evidence related to a specific medical or health topic. Results of a systematic review provide the best information for making decisions about treatment, practice or behavior.

Patient & Family Information

All of the available materials were produced through collaboration between the MSKTC and the Model Systems. This health information is based on research evidence and/or professional consensus and has been reviewed and approved by an editorial team of experts from the different Model Systems.

What is a Model System?

Model Systems are specialized programs of care in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) that are funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Model Systems pool information and conduct research intended to improve the long-term functional, vocational, cognitive, and quality-of-life outcomes in individuals with TBI and SCI.

What are the Model Systems National Databases?

Each Model System invites newly injured individuals to participate in an ongoing National Database of patients. Data are collected on enrolled patients at regular intervals for up to 30 years after injury. This information is used to further the understanding of the long-term consequences of these injuries and to develop improved treatments and systems of care

Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems

Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems