Matching prosthetics order records in VA National Prosthetics Patient Database to healthcare utilization databases

Matching prosthetics order records in VA National Prosthetics Patient Database to healthcare utilization databases.

The National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) is the national Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dataset that records characteristics of individual prosthetic and assistive devices. It remains unknown how well NPPD records can be matched to encounter records for the same individuals in major VA utilization databases. We compared the count of prosthetics records in the NPPD with the count of...

Matching Prosthetics Order Records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to Health Care Utilization Databases, Smith 2010

Highlights of other VA research programs. Prosthetics.

VA Prosthetics Center research, development, and evaluation program.

The VA Prosthetics Center Research and Development effort is organized along a time axis based on when clinically useful results from each project are expected . Each Project, supervised by a manager, may conduct research, development, and evaluation in prosthetics, orthotics or other areas. In one Project, Advanced Systems, for example, where results are not expected to reach clinical practice...

The VA-Cyberware lower limb prosthetics-orthotics optical laser digitizer.

Characterization of the residual limbs and limb segments of patients for prosthesis and orthosis design has principally been a subjective process, highly dependent upon the skill, level of training, and experience of the prosthetist/orthotist involved. Even with the application of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies in prosthetics and orthotics, resid...