Understanding rehabilitation engineering

Autor: R. Sturm, M. Youdin, A. Youdin
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the 1988 Fourteenth Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference.
DOI: 10.1109/nebc.1988.19372
Popis: The authors discuss the present status of the rehabilitation engineer and provide suggestions on how to increase interest in the field. The suggestions include: (1) introduction of formal undergraduate and graduate training programs; (2) establishment of professional qualification and certification criteria; (3) offering malpractice insurance to individual rehabilitation engineers; (4) more employment opportunity in hospitals for rehabilitation engineers; and (5) extension of malpractice insurance and modification of malpractice and product liability laws to cover the modification of available equipment by rehabilitation engineers. >
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