Abstract
Seating, positioning and wheeled mobility systems are frequently purchased by individuals with disabilities. Mechanisms for effectively prescribing and evaluating the potential uses of these systems to maximize individual function and assure positive health outcomes do not generally exist. Consequently, a committee of experts in the field of rehabilitation technology, along with consumers and others, developed a set of guidelines and decision matrices to assure more consistency for choosing these systems in a way that could improve consumer satisfaction, improve function and health outcomes, and decrease costs associated with improper prescription of these systems. The reliability of these decision matrices was recently tested. The development of these matrices and the methods for testing the reliability of the decision matrices and the results are discussed.
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