Provision of Prosthetic Services Following Lower Limb Amputation in Malaysia
Provision of Prosthetic Services Following Lower Limb Amputation in Malaysia
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DOI：
10.21315/mjms2017.24.5.12
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发表时间：
2017-09-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Che Aziz, Roslizawati
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作者：
Arifin, Nooranida;Hasbollah, Hasif Rafidee;Che Aziz, Roslizawati
下肢截肢的发病率在全球范围内很高，并继续成为发病率和死亡率的主要威胁。因此，提供高质量和有效的假肢服务被认为是成功康复的重要组成部分。在马来西亚，截肢流行率一直在增加，其中应预期提供服务方面的几个主要组成部分（如服务干预、假肢人员）以适应不断增长的需求。这篇文章强调了在马来西亚提供义肢服务所经历的障碍，从多个方面，如获得义肢的经济负担和缺乏生产高质量义肢的专业知识。因此，这一最重要的问题证明迫切需要对目前下肢截肢的统计数据进行国家一级的调查，并确定现有的劳动力来提供高质量的假肢服务。只有从全国调查中获得准确和最新的信息，才能制定旨在提高义肢服务成果的战略和政策。
The incidence of lower limb amputation is high across the globe and continues to be a major threat to morbidity and mortality. Consequently, the provision of high quality and effective prosthetics services have been known as an essential component for a successful rehabilitation outcome. In Malaysia, amputation prevalence has been increasing in which several main components of service delivering aspects (such as service intervention, prosthetic personnel) should be anticipated to accommodate for the increasing demand. This article highlights the hurdles experienced in providing prosthetic services in Malaysia from multiple aspects such as financial burden to acquire the prosthesis and lack of expertise to produce quality prosthesis. This paramount issues consequently justify for the urgency to carry out national level survey on the current statistics of lower limb amputation and to ascertain the available workforce to provide a quality prosthetics services. Only with accurate and current information from the national survey, strategies and policies aimed at enhancing the outcome from prosthetics services can be achieved.