In Brief:
The purpose of this retrospective chart review of 298 children was to determine whether age at initial fit, type of prosthesis, geographic location, gender, or side of limb deficiency were associated with duration of upper extremity prosthetic wear in children. The authors found that children fit with a transradial prosthesis at younger ages wore a prosthesis longer than did children fit at older ages, that children who wore a body-powered or myoelectric prothesis were more than two times as likely to wear it > 3 years than were children who wore a passive prosthesis, and that children living in Mexico were more than four times as likely to wear a prosthesis > 3 years than were children living in other countries.
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