In this survey study, 358 persons with upper limb absence selected their 10 most important items regarding prosthesis use from a diagram that contained 79 items (i.e. the HealthFan diagram). Consequently, they were asked to rank those ten items from most important to least important. A total of 305 from the included participants provided an informed consent for reuse of their data for future research. The data of the latter group can be requested for research purposes. See the published article for more information about the study.