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Not just the right to a wheelchair but the right wheelchair - improving Brazilian wheelchair service delivery

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posted on 2018-07-09, 09:16 authored by Tulio P. dos Santos Maximo, Laurence CliftLaurence Clift
This paper discusses the barriers encountered before and after the implementation of good practice in the delivery of wheelchair provision services in Belo Horizonte city, Brazil. The results demystify some participants' initial idea that using an assessment form might take significantly more time. Major barriers to implementation had regard to the assessment of pressure sores and a lack of wheelchair suppliers.

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by the Brazilian Government programme Science Without Borders.

History

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  • Design

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Article accepted for publication in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics,

Volume

242

Pages

762 - 769 (7)

Citation

MAXIMO, T and CLIFT, L., 2017. Not just the right to a wheelchair but the right wheelchair - improving Brazilian wheelchair service delivery. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 242, pp.762-769.

Publisher

IOS Press © The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017

Notes

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-762. This paper was also presented at the 14th conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE 2017), Sheffield, September 2017. A repository record for the conference paper is available at https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/26788.

ISSN

0926-9630

Language

  • en