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Title: Recording of time-varying back-pain data: A wireless solution
Authors: Serif, T
Ghinea, G
Keywords: Back pain;Pain drawings;Ubiquitous data collection;Visualization
Issue Date: 2005
Publisher: IEEE
Citation: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 9(3): 447 - 458, Sep 2005
Abstract: Chronic back pain is a debilitating experience for a considerable proportion of the adult population, with a significant impact on countries’ economies and health systems. While there has been increasing anecdotal evidence to support the fact that for certain categories of patients (such as wheelchair users), the back pain experienced is dynamically varying with time, there is a relative scarcity of data to support and document this observation, with consequential impact upon such patients’ treatment and care. Part of the reason behind this state of affairs is the relative difficulty in gathering pain measurements at precisely defined moments in time. In this paper,we describe a wireless-enabled solution that collects both questionnaire and diagrammatic, visual-based data, via a pain drawing, which overcomes such limitations, enabling seamless data collection and its upload to a hospital server using existing wireless fidelity technology. Results show that it is generally perceived to be an easy-to-use and convenient solution to the challenges of anywhere/anytime data collection.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1088
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