The Impact of Limited Prosthetic Socket Documentation: A Researcher Perspective.
Jennifer Olsen, Shruti Turner, Alix Chadwell, Alex Dickinson, Chantel Ostler, Lucy Armitage, Alison H McGregor, Sigrid Dupan, Sarah Day
PMID 36189046WHAT IT FOUND
This article is an opinion piece arguing that the lack of standardized documentation for prosthetic socket design and manufacturing hinders research reproducibility and patient safety.
It proposes future guidelines but reports no patient data or clinical outcomes.
What this paper is
This is an opinion piece written by a group of biomedical engineering researchers and clinicians. It discusses the lack of standardized documentation for prosthetic socket design and manufacturing, arguing that this gap hinders research reproducibility and patient safety. The article proposes recommendations for future reporting guidelines and outcome measures but contains no original patient data, no methods, and no results. Therefore, there are no clinical findings to act on.
Declared interests
The work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Scar Free Foundation. The authors declared no commercial or financial conflicts of interest.