Demographic characteristics of veterans who received wheelchairs and scooters from Veterans Health Administration

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 831-844

  Hubbard, Sandra L ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Shirley G ^a,c   Reker, Dean M ^a,d   Boninger, Michael L ^a,e   Cooper, Rory A ^a,c   Kazis, Lewis E ^a,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Assistive technology; Equity; Ethnicity; Power wheelchair; Race; Rehabilitation; Sex; Standard manual wheelchair; Wheeled mobility equipment

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WHEELCHAIRS;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; POWER WHEELCHAIR; RACE/ETHNICITY; SEX; STANDARD MANUAL WHEELCHAIR; WHEELED MOBILITY EQUIPMENT;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; VETERAN; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 33947418447     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2005.11.0174     Document Type: Article

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