Design evaluation of a home-based telecare system for Chronic Heart Failure patients

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5851-5854

  Gund, A ^a   Ekman, I ^b   Lindecrantz, K ^c   Sjoqvist B A ^a   Staaf, E L ^a   Thorneskold N ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c University College   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY;

CHRONIC HEART FAILURES; DESIGN EVALUATION; HEALTH CONDITION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; PROBLEM AREAS; SYSTEM USABILITY; TELE-CARE SYSTEMS; USER FRIENDLY;

HOME HEALTH CARE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 61849161109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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