Responses of potential users to the intracortical visual prosthesis: Final themes from the analysis of focus group data

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 304-313

  Lane, Frank John ^a   Huyck, Margaret ^a   Troyk, Philip ^b   Schug, Kenneth ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Qualitative methodology; Technology; Vision implant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS;

EID: 84861363296     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2011.629326     Document Type: Review

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