Prosthetics: Health quality of life effects of limb loss

Proceedings - 2011 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1333-1337

  Yong, Ching Yee ^a   Chew, Kim Mey ^a   Mahmood, Nasrul Humaimi ^a   Sudirman, Rubita ^a   Omar, Camallil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

amputee; patient satisfaction; prosthetic; stump

Indexed keywords

AMPUTEE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIVES; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALAYSIA; PATIENT HEALTH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY; SAMPLE DATA; STUMP;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROSTHETICS; SURVEYS;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS;

EID: 84855771660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098617     Document Type: Conference Paper

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