Feasibility of Freedom of Information Requests for Amputee Epidemiology in the United Kingdom.

Published in: Advances in rehabilitation science and practice (2024)

Freedom of Information requests are an inexpensive way of gathering data from NHS prosthetic clinics, which can identify age, sex, level of amputation but not activity levels or use of a prosthesis and hence only gives limited demographic information of the amputee cohort.

Keyphrases

health information
patient safety
risk factors
healthcare
big data
lower limb
data analysis