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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 2017-10-03, 10:33 authored by Tulio P. dos Santos Maximo, Laurence Clift
© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved. 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.

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This research was supported by the Brazilian Government programme Science Without Borders.

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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volume

242

Pages

762 - 769

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MAXIMO, T. and CLIFT, L., 2017. Not just the right to a wheelchair but the right wheelchair-improving Brazilian wheelchair service delivery. Presented at the 14th conference of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE 2017), Sheffield, September 2017.

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IOS Press

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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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/

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2017

Notes

This paper was also published in Cudd, P. and De Witt, L., (eds.) Harnessing the Power of Technology to Improve Lives, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 762-769. The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-762. A repository record for the journal article is available at https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33786.

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9781614997979

ISSN

0926-9630

eISSN

1879-8365

Book series

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics;242

Language

  • en

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