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Evaluating outcomes in assistive technology: do we understand the commitment?

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  • 1Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, CA 90242, USA.

Assistive Technology : the Official Journal of RESNA
|December 9, 1994
PubMed
Summary

Evaluating assistive technology (AT) services requires community-wide accountability to ensure quality and measure outcomes. Addressing previously unmet challenges is crucial for developing integrated AT service delivery systems.

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Area of Science:

  • Assistive Technology (AT)
  • Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Evaluating assistive technology (AT) services for quality and outcomes is an ethical imperative for the AT community.
  • Accountability for service delivery evaluation must encompass all stakeholders.
  • Previous service delivery models have not necessitated facing certain integrated system challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the ethical obligation of evaluating AT services.
  • To emphasize the need for stakeholder accountability in AT service assessment.
  • To identify and address challenges in developing integrated AT service systems.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review on AT service evaluation frameworks.
  • Stakeholder analysis for accountability mapping.

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  • Identification of challenges in integrated AT system development.

    • Main Results:

    • Ethical evaluation of AT services is a shared responsibility.
    • Integrated AT systems require novel approaches to accountability.
    • Specific challenges in AT service delivery have been identified.

    Conclusions:

    • The AT community must embrace comprehensive evaluation and accountability.
    • Developing integrated AT systems necessitates confronting new challenges.
    • Quality and outcome measurement are fundamental to ethical AT service provision.