Smart Patient Monitoring System for Older Adults to provide remote health care

Smart patient monitoring system for advanced remote health care for older adults

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12612000090819

Enrollment

Registered

2012-01-18

Start date

2012-09-15

Completion date

2013-06-01

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This research is aimed to evaluate and develop an intelligent monitoring system combined with biological data for patient (human) tracking and monitoring. This project aims to improve the performance of current patient monitoring systems by identifying the shortfalls of existing technology and developing a system for providing alerts to the health care professionals as well as the user in the event of detecting a serious illness symptom.

Interventions

In this system vital signs (with informed consent) will be gathered from patients and sent to a control unit for centralized monitoring. The system can complement the role of nurses in monitoring patients’ vital signs. They will be able to focus on holistic needs of patients thereby providing better personal care. Advance and complex medical algorithms will be developed in order to detect several events by using vital signs. Wireless network technologies will be utilized for transmission of vital signs in the proposed system, as they provide flexibility and mobility to patients. The proposed system will be tested in real-time in public hospital wards after obtaining ethical approval. The capability, suitability and limitation of the chosen technology and the results will be evaluated and validated with two different methods, i.e. comparing with other systems and by agreement with expert using Kappa analysis. Total 30 participants will be considered. Each participant will be monitored for 5 hours.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

65 Years to 100 No limit

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Participants above the age of 65 years are considered.

Exclusion criteria

The key exclusion criteria are: Exclusion of refusal of inform consent, Hodkinson AMT 7/10 or less (Hodkinson H. M., 1972), Patients deemed unsuitable by medical or nursing staff, Terminally ill patients and, Patients on any other monitoring device.

Outcome results