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Siddiqui S, Huang D, Touchett H, Skelton F. A Clinical Vignette on Community Transition After Inpatient Rehabilitation for a Veteran With New Spinal Cord Injury-Related Disability During the COVID-19 Pandemic. American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation. 2021 Jul 1; 100(7):631-632.
Huang D, Siddiqui SA, Touchett HN, Skelton F. Protecting the most vulnerable among us: Access to care and resources for persons with disability from spinal cord injury during the COVID-19 pandemic. PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation. 2021 Jun 1; 13(6):632-636.
Skelton F, Suda K, Evans C, Trautner B. Effective antibiotic stewardship in spinal cord injury: Challenges and a way forward. The journal of spinal cord medicine. 2019 Mar 1; 42(2):251-254.
Skelton F, Grigoryan L, Holmes SA, Poon IO, Trautner B. Routine Urine Testing at the Spinal Cord Injury Annual Evaluation Leads to Unnecessary Antibiotic Use: A Pilot Study and Future Directions. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2018 Feb 1; 99(2):219-225.
Skelton F, Grigoryan L, Ying J, Holmes SA, Trautner B. Clinical Guideline Adherence for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Spinal Cord Injury. Poster session presented at: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2016 May 19; Atlanta, GA.
Skelton F, Kunik ME, Regev T, Naik AD. Determining if an older adult can make and execute decisions to live safely at home: a capacity assessment and intervention model. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2010 May 1; 50(3):300-5.