A model for the measurement of patient activity in a hospital suite

Author

LeBellego, Gael ; Noury, Norbert ; Viron, Gilles ; Mousseau, Mireille ; Demong, Jacques

Author_Institution

TIMC-IMAG Lab., Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

99

Abstract

At the time of hospitalization, it is essential to evaluate the general health status of a patient and to follow up the trends during therapy. Our work is focused on a set of tools for the measurement of patient activity. In this paper, we propose a few indicators of the patient activities of daily living, such as mobility, agitation, repartitions of stays, and displacements. As a result of this work, a diagnostic system was developed that could lead to a deeper knowledge of human activity rhythms in normal situations

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical engineering; biomedical measurement; patient diagnosis; psychology; diagnostic system; health status; hospital suite; hospitalization; human activity rhythms; patient activity measurement; patient mobility; Hospitals; Humans; Intelligent sensors; Magnetic sensors; Oncology; Patient monitoring; Rhythm; Senior citizens; Smart homes; Switches; Hospitalization; rhythms of activity; smart homes; telehomecare;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7771

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TITB.2005.856855

Filename

1573711