Nighttime Continuous Contactless Smartphone-Based Cough Monitoring for the Ward: Validation Study
Journal
JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2023-02-20
Author(s)
Barata, Filipe
;
Cleres, David
;
;
Shih, Chen-Hsuan Iris
;
Rassouli, Frank
;
Boesch, Maximilian
;
Brutsche, Martin
;
Abstract (De)
Clinical deterioration can go unnoticed in hospital wards for hours. Mobile technologies such as wearables and smartphones enable automated, continuous, noninvasive ward monitoring and allow the detection of subtle changes in vital signs. Cough can be effectively monitored through mobile technologies in the ward, as it is not only a symptom of prevalent respiratory diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, and COVID-19 but also a predictor of acute health deterioration. In past decades, many efforts have been made to develop an automatic cough counting tool. To date, however, there is neither a standardized, sufficiently validated method nor a scalable cough monitor that can be deployed on a consumer-centric device that reports cough counts continuously. These shortcomings limit the tracking of coughing and, consequently, hinder the monitoring of disease progression in prevalent respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and COVID-19 in the ward.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
JMIR Publications
Publisher place
JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH online
Volume
JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e38439
Pages
17
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
269541
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