Understanding the benefits of prosthetic prescription: Exploring the experiences of practitioners and lower limb prosthetic users

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 1314-1323

  Schaffalitzky, Elisabeth ^a,d   Gallagher, Pamela ^a,d   MacLachlan, Malcolm ^b,d   Ryall, Nicola ^c  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c The National Rehabilitation Hospital   (Ireland)

^d Dublin Psychoprosthetics Group   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amputation; lower limb; prosthetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRELAND; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959458167     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.529234     Document Type: Article

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