Recipients of electric-powered indoor/outdoor wheelchairs provided by a national health service: A cross-sectional study

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2403-2409

  Frank, Andrew O ^a   De Souza, Lorraine H ^b  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age distribution; Rehabilitation; Self help devices; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; POWERED WHEELCHAIR; VENTILATOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; AT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CP; CVD; ELECTRIC-POWERED INDOOR/OUTDOOR WHEELCHAIR; EPIOC; MD; MS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NHS; PM; POWERED MOBILITY; RA; REHABILITATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SB; SCI; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHEELCHAIRS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PAIN; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SCOLIOSIS; STATE MEDICINE; WHEELCHAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888353808     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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