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cpoj-37795	Brüggenjürgen, Bernd; Braatz, Frank; Greitemann, Bernhard ; Drewitz, Heiko ; Ruetz, Axel; Schäfer, Michael ; Seifert, Wolfgang ; Steinfeldt, Friedemann ; Weichold, Claudia ; Yao, Daiwei ; Stukenborg-Colsman, Christina 	EXPERTS’ PERCEIVED PATIENT BURDEN AND OUTCOMES OF KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT-ORTHOSES (KAFOs) VS. MICROPROCESSOR-STANCE-AND-SWING-PHASE-CONTROLLED-KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSES (MP-SSCOs)	2022	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5692	283	41	Unlike Yang et al., we conducted interviews with experts caring for patients in need for lower limb orthoses.10 However, despite not directly involving patients’ responses, research of health-related QoL did show that the results obtained from attending HCPs considerably overlap with patients’ individual feedback, resulting in reasonable agreement that make the HCPs’ perception a valuable source of assessment.18 However, when assessing individual patients, there was some discordance between scores obtained from HCPs compared to patients, with physicians systematically underestimating overall QoL, social functioning, and role functioning. Semi-structured interviews are employed in qualitative interview research where the order and content of questions in an interview can be modified to deepen the exploration of a research topic according to the response of the interviewee.14 The interviews were conducted by phone and survey questions were comprised of the following areas: participants’ orthotic experience, challenges in orthotic rehabilitation, patient burden and severity of this burden, patient needs and benefits, patient relevant outcomes, rehabilitation under delivery of new orthotic devices, severity and frequency of falls, adverse events other than falls.	cache/cpoj-37795.pdf	txt/cpoj-37795.txt