A pervasive solution for risk awareness in the context of fall prevention

2009 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - Pervasive Health 2009, PCTHealth 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Caporusso, Nicholas ^a   Lasorsa, Irene ^c,d   Rinaldi, Oliviero ^b,c   La Pietra, Leonardo ^b,c  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c CINEAS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity monitoring; Multimodal feedback; Patient safety; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING; ADVERSE EVENTS; CLOSED-LOOP; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CONSTANT FEEDBACK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FALL PREVENTION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; MULTIMODAL FEEDBACK; PATIENT SAFETY; REMOTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEALTH CARE; RISK PERCEPTION; TELEMEDICINE;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 70350774504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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