A New Conceptual Model for Assistive Technology Outcomes Research and Practice

Assistive Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Lenker, James A ^a   Paquet, Victor L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b The State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Human factors; Models; Outcomes research; Social cognition; Usability

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (AT); CLINICAL PRACTICES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 3242730256     PISSN: 10400435     EISSN: 19493614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2004.10132069     Document Type: Article

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