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Introduction
Published in A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha, Clark’s Procedures in Diagnostic Imaging: A System-Based Approach, 2020
A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha
Patient identity is established using the departmental protocol that asks the patient to state their full name, address and date of birth (Fig. 1.61). These details are then cross-referenced with the request form. The examination must not proceed until the radiographer is assured of the identity of the patient and has followed local consent procedure guidelines. Effective communication is important to ensure patient compliance and understanding. The radiographer must refer to the patient by title and then confirm how the patient would like to be addressed, e.g. do they agree to being addressed by their forename? When a patient is experiencing a prolonged imaging procedure it can often be more comforting to use their forename, but only if invited. Specific patient needs and special requirements should be addressed. The patient is then appropriately dressed for the procedure with all potential artefacts removed.
Internet of Things in Healthcare Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Network (WIBSNs)
Published in Huynh Thi Thanh Binh, Nilanjan Dey, Soft Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2018
Anu Rathee, T. Poongodi, Monika Yadav, Balamurugan Balusamy
Sensing: Sensor devices gather information about patients by diagnosing the patient condition and the information will be intimated to patient health indicators. The various health-related applications track patient compliance with prescriptions and telemedical solutions, alerting patients if there is a problem. Sensors would be practical in both inpatient and outpatient care. Wireless technologies can be integrated in treatment for supporting constant biosignal monitoring in the case of patient mobility.
Communications
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Design for Health, 2017
However, a substantial number of patients do not take their medicines for a variety of reasons. ‘Non-compliance rates’ vary from medicine to medicine, but for some medicines the ‘not-taking-figure’ is as high as 50 per cent (WHO, 2003). The main reasons for non compliance are health illiteracy, forgetfulness, misunderstanding, complex regimes, adverse effects (real or imagined) and reduction or fluctuation of symptoms.
Feasibility and patient’s experiences of perioperative telemonitoring in major abdominal surgery: an observational pilot study
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2022
Marjolein E. Haveman, Rianne van Melzen, Richte C.L. Schuurmann, Hermie J. Hermens, Monique Tabak, Jean-Paul P.M. de Vries
In development and evaluation of telemedicine services, it is important that the evaluation method chosen matches the state of the technology development [6]. Most studies on perioperative telemonitoring are still in the feasibility phase: telemonitoring is hereby used as a standalone service and endpoints focus on its feasibility and usability [6]. To work toward consequent study designs for effectiveness, not only the technology development is of importance but also how the telemonitoring will be implemented and used by its stakeholders. For example, compliance of patients to treatment is related to clinical outcomes in chronic diseases [7]. However, actual use and patient’s experiences are hardly evaluated for perioperative telemonitoring services [8,9] but only by future intention-to-use of patients, which does not match actual usage behavior [10,11]. Additionally, evaluation afterward causes non-response due to patient dropout [12,13] or recall bias for patients.
Incentive-driven post-discharge compliance management for chronic disease patients in healthcare service operations
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2019
Aditya M. Prakash, Qiao-chu He, Xiang Zhong
The triple aim of a healthcare system is to provide low-cost, high-value care, and to improve population health (Stiefel and Nolan 2012). Building upon the proper understanding of patient compliance behavior, various stakeholders, such as hospitals, insurers, and policymakers, can facilitate behavioral change in patients to improve their respective objectives through incentives or penalties. Here, we assume that their objectives are aligned with the triple aim, and we primarily focus on insurers who are profit-seeking and in whose best interest it is to reduce cost. Therefore, the second objective of the paper is to devise the right mechanism to help patients overcome compliance barriers to achieve the optimal societal welfare. This translates to an optimization problem of eliciting the desired compliance behavior by minimizing the monetary intervention made by the insurer.
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and devices for cardiac resynchronization therapy: what perspective for patients’ apps combined with remote monitoring?
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2022
Daria Sgreccia, Erminio Mauro, Marco Vitolo, Marcella Manicardi, Anna Chiara Valenti, Jacopo Francesco Imberti, Matteo Ziacchi, Giuseppe Boriani
In recent years, several smartphone software applications have been developed with the aim of improving patient compliance (i.e. reminder of scheduled visits or attention to drug therapy). Recently, mobile applications with a real purpose of tool for medical quality improvement have also been developed. Some applications could replace the conventional remote control, while others become complementary because they allow to maximize clinical interpretation of data by adding clinical status to the multiparametric analysis of the devices.