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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2021

Ethical Considerations of Wearable Technologies in Human Research.

Jiaobing Tu, Wei Gao

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The Ethics of Decentralized Clinical Trials and Informed Consent: Taking Technologies' Soft Impacts into Account.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2025
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  12. Wearable Technologies and Stress: Toward an Ethically Grounded Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  17. Wearable Bioelectronics for Chronic Wound Management.Advanced functional materials · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jiaobing TuAndrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7653-6640
Wei GaoAndrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8503-4562

Funding

Wearable Sweat Sensor for Non-invasive Wireless Monitoring of Heart FailureR21NR018271 · NINR · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GAO, WEI · 2019 to 2020
$435k
NINR NIH HHS R21 NR018271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wearable technologies hold great promise for disease diagnosis and patient care. Despite the flourishing research activities in this field, only a handful of wearable devices are commercialized and cleared for medical usage. The successful translation of current proof-of-concept prototypes requires extensive in-human testing. There is a lag between current standards and operation protocols to guide the responsible and ethical conduct of researchers in such in-human studies and the rapid development of the field. This essay presents relevant ethical concerns in early-stage human research from a researcher's perspective.

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Wearable Electronic DevicesHumansethicshuman researchwearable technology

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PMID33870653
PMCPMC8429072

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