Understanding maintenance, repair, and replacement of prosthetic limbs using routinely-collected data: a retrospective study over three decades in Cambodia
Prosthetic limb maintenance, repair, and replacement are influenced both by the device's durability and the user's access to well-resourced physical rehabilitation services. A device that is worn-out and repaired or replaced early may indicate poor quality, or the opposite, i.e. that it fitted well and enabled great mobility. However, such analysis may enable us to identify groups who are less well-served by current devices or rehabilitation models and contribute to cost-effectiveness analysis of current services. Furthermore, the findings represent benchmark data against which engineers could measure new technologies, to ensure that innovation justifies its inherent risk by offering a genuine improvement which balances functionality, cost, and durability.
Authors
- Alex Dickinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9647-1944)
- Carson Harte
- Sisary Kheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1464-4734)
- Bunthoeun Sam
- Chantel Ostler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8267-2892)
- Sam Simpson
- Cheryl Metcalf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-6066)
- Lucy Gates (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8627-3418)
- Peter R. Worsley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0145-5042)
- Thearith Heang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1924-8770)
- Andrew Amos Channon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4855-0418)
- Maggie Donovan‐Hall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3398-845X)
- Charlotte Spurway
Institutions
- Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- Documentation Center of Cambodia (KH)
- NIHR Research Delivery Network (GB)
- University of Southampton (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Global Health
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.15.04135
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.02