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Activity Monitoring in Daily Life as Outcome Measure for Surgical Pain Relief Intervention Using Smartphones

Publication Type Conference Paper
Authors Julia Seiter, Sebastian Feese, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster, Oliver Amft, Lucian Macrea, Konrad Maurer
Title Activity Monitoring in Daily Life as Outcome Measure for Surgical Pain Relief Intervention Using Smartphones
Abstract In this paper we investigate the potential of a smartphone to measure a patient’s change in physical activity before and after a surgical pain relief intervention. We show feasibility for our smartphone system providing physical activity from acceleration, barometer and location data to measure the intervention’s outcome. In a single-case study, we monitored a pain patient carrying the smartphone before and after a surgical intervention over 26 days. Results indicate significant changes before and after intervention, particularly in physical activity in the home environment.
Date 2013
Proceedings Title Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '13)
Publisher IEEE
Pages 127–128
DOI 10.1145/2493988.2494336
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