I got this survey through work and thought there might be people on both
lists interested in responding. It deals with accessibility of medical
equipment to people with disabilities. If any of you know of other
places to distribute it that would be great too.
Kendall Corbett
Coordinator of Consumer Activities
Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities -WIND
PO Box 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
(307) 766-2853
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-----Original Message-----
From: George Jesien [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:06 PM
To: Consumer Affairs
Subject: FW: Medical Equipment and Accessibility Survey
George Jesien, Ph.D., Executive Director
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
1010 Wayne Ave, Suite 920
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tele: 301-588-8252; ext 207
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.aucd.org
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From: ILRU [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Medical Equipment and Accessibility Survey
Dear Colleagues,
Our friend, June Kailes, is working with rehab engineers on a major
project on increasing accessibility of medical equipment.
June is asking for consumers with all kinds of disabilities to complete
a survey on barriers they encounter in the medical arena.
It would be great if you could let consumers know about this
survey--maybe putting this announcement on real or virtual bulletin
boards, running in your newsletter, posting on your Web site, etc.
Let's give these rehab engineering guys all they need to know about
barriers to acceptable health care that are created by inaccessible
equipment. Wouldn't it be great to get some of our problems fixed?
Wouldn't it be great to get some of these problems out in the open?
By the way, the official name of the project, is the Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center on Medical Instrumentation at Marquette
University in Milwaukee, funded by NIDRR.
We'll ask June to share findings from these surveys with us so we can
distribute them to you.
Thanks for considering our request, and best regards from all of us at
ILRU.
Laurel
_________________________
Laurel Richards
Director of Training
ILRU -- Independent Living Research Utilization Program
2323 S. Shepherd, Suite 1000
Houston, TX 77019
713.520.0232 (v)
713.520.5136 (TTY)
713.520.5785 (fax)
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FROM: June Kailes
SUBJECT: Invitation to People with Disabilities to Participate in a
Survey on Use of Medical Equipment
The reason we are asking people to fill out this survey is to learn more
about what types of medical equipment people with disabilities have
found hard to use. Later, we will make changes to some types of medical
equipment, making them easier for people to use.
We are looking specifically at four categories of medical equipment:
Diagnostic Equipment:
Monitoring--such as thermometer, blood pressure cuff, cardiac stress
test Imaging-such as x-ray, MRI, mammogram, ultrasound equipment
Procedural Equipment:
Furniture/Fixtures-such as tables, chairs
Manual Tools-such as defibrillator, dental drill
Therapeutic Equipment:
Drug Therapy-such as syringes, infusion pumps, ventilators Physical
Therapy-such as rehabilitation or exercise equipment
Assistive Technologies (used either as or with medical equipment):
Mobility/Posture/Manipulation-such as wheelchair, brace, reacher
Sensory/Communication/Cognition-such as hearing aid, speech aid,
personal digital assistant (PDA)
If you have a disability and have experience trying to use any of these
types of medical equipment, we invite you to volunteer to fill out our
survey. You have a choice of four ways to take part:
1. Online on the Internet-go to:
http://www.rerc-ami.org/personal/starter.htm
2. On a computer-download from:
http://www.rerc-ami.org/personal/starter.htm
3. On paper-download from: http://www.rerc-ami.org/personal/starter.htm
4. Or, contact staff by email at [log in to unmask], by telephone/TTY at
(800) 832-0524 or by mail at RERC-AMI, c/o CDIHP Western University of
Health Sciences, 309 E. 2nd Street, Pomona, CA 91766-1854.
If taking part in the survey by telephone, please contact staff at
[log in to unmask] or call (800) 832-0524 to set up a time.
Thank you for your interest in this important project!
RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation: http://www.rerc-ami.org
Jack Winters, Director: [log in to unmask] Molly Story,
Co-Director: [log in to unmask]
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