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This publication is dealing with the report of Great Britain on experiences of user participation in R&D oriented work.
Introduction
An inventory has been carried out by the Centre of Rehabilitation Engineering, King's Healthcare Rehabilitation Centre by postal questionnaire. 220 personally-addressed, reply-paid questionnaires were distributed to contacts known to be working in the field of AT. The replies came from four main groups of activity:
academic,
health service,
commerce,
and end-user or end-user organisation (including charities).
The response rate amount to 41%. Some results of the inquiry:
Recruitment: How are end-user recruited to equipment evaluation?
| Through personal contacts. |
| Academic |
71% |
| Commercial |
93% |
| Service |
70% |
| User/Charity |
88% |
| Through user organisations. |
| Academic |
71% |
| Commercial |
47% |
| Service |
39% |
| User/Charity |
25% |
| Through organised user panel. |
| Academic |
41% |
| Commercial |
20% |
| Service |
17% |
| User/Charity |
50% |
Organisation of user participation.
| By ad hoc participation. |
| Academic |
71% |
| Commercial |
86% |
| Service |
84% |
| User/Charity |
100% |
| A user panel. |
| Academic |
35% |
| Commercial |
36% |
| Service |
22% |
| User/Charity |
29% |
| A project group. |
| Academic |
35% |
| Commercial |
0% |
| Service |
16% |
| User/Charity |
14% |
| A steering committee. |
| Academic |
20% |
| Commercial |
0% |
| Service |
11% |
| User/Charity |
0% |
| A reference group. |
| Academic |
10% |
| Commercial |
14% |
| Service |
9% |
| User/Charity |
29% |
| A working group. |
| Academic |
5% |
| Commercial |
21% |
| Service |
16% |
| User/Charity |
0% |
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