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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Review of Wearable Devices and Data Collection Considerations for Connected Health.

Vini Vijayan, James P Connolly, Joan Condell, Nigel McKelvey, Philip Gardiner

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vini VijayanComputing Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, F92 FC93 Letterkenny, Ireland.
James P ConnollyComputing Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, F92 FC93 Letterkenny, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-7970-1699
Joan CondellSchool of Computing, Engineering & Intelligent System, Ulster University Magee Campus, BT48 7JL Londonderry, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-3517-2182
Nigel McKelveyComputing Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, F92 FC93 Letterkenny, Ireland.
Philip GardinerRheumatology Department, Altnagelvin Hospital, Glenshane Road, BT47 6SB Londonderry, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-7972-1040

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wearable sensor technology has gradually extended its usability into a wide range of well-known applications. Wearable sensors can typically assess and quantify the wearer's physiology and are commonly employed for human activity detection and quantified self-assessment. Wearable sensors are increasingly utilised to monitor patient health, rapidly assist with disease diagnosis, and help predict and often improve patient outcomes. Clinicians use various self-report questionnaires and well-known tests to report patient symptoms and assess their functional ability. These assessments are time consuming and costly and depend on subjective patient recall. Moreover, measurements may not accurately demonstrate the patient's functional ability whilst at home. Wearable sensors can be used to detect and quantify specific movements in different applications. The volume of data collected by wearable sensors during long-term assessment of ambulatory movement can become immense in tuple size. This paper discusses current techniques used to track and record various human body movements, as well as techniques used to measure activity and sleep from long-term data collected by wearable technology devices.

Indexed as

Wearable Electronic DevicesHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicMovementSelf ReportSleepdeep learning (DL)digital healthcareneural network (NN)quantified self (QS)wearable technology

Identifiers

PMID34451032
PMCPMC8402237

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