ReviewBMC palliative care2023
Palliative care and new technologies. The use of smart sensor technologies and its impact on the Total Care principle.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Telehealth in palliative care settings: A systematic review of argument-based ethics literature.Palliative medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Mapping social implications of wearables to monitor physical activity in palliative care - a qualitative approach.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- CARE-HOUSE: developing a framework for conceptualizing social implications of digital health technologies in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Care of Terminally Ill Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mapping study on AI-based technologies in palliative care - a scoping study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Perspectives, attitudes and experiences of introducing noninvasive medical technologies in end-of-life care: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of AI in End-of-Life Palliative Care: Integrative Review.Interactive journal of medical research · 2025Review
- Designing knowledge-driven digitalization: novel recommendations for digitally supported multi-professional collaboration.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Implementation of a digital distress detection system in palliative care: qualitative data on perspectives of a multiprofessional palliative care team.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- What about spiritual needs? Care robotics and spiritual care.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
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- Older People's Voices Matter!: Possibilities and Limitations for Providing Dignified Palliative Care with Wearable Devices.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPalliative care is an integral part of health care, which in term has become increasingly technologized in recent decades. Lately, innovative smart sensors combined with artificial intelligence promise better diagnosis and treatment. But to date, it is unclear: how are palliative care concepts and their underlying assumptions about humans challenged by smart sensor technologies (SST) and how can care benefit from SST?
aimsThe paper aims to identify changes and challenges in palliative care due to the use of SST. In addition, normative guiding criteria for the use of SST are developed.
methodsThe principle of Total Care used by the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) forms the basis for the ethical analysis. Drawing on this, its underlying conceptions of the human and its socio-ethical aspects are examined with a phenomenological focus. In the second step, the advantages, limitations, and socio-ethical challenges of using SST with respect to the Total Care principle are explored. Finally, ethical-normative requirements for the application of SST are derived. RESULTS AND
conclusionFirst, SST are limited in their measurement capabilities. Second, SST have an impact on human agency and autonomy. This concerns both the patient and the caregiver. Third, some aspects of the Total Care principle are likely to be marginalized due to the use of SST. The paper formulates normative requirements for using SST to serve human flourishing. It unfolds three criteria according to which SST must be aligned: (1) evidence and purposefulness, (2) autonomy, and (3) Total Care.
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