A battery-less and wireless wearable sensor system for identifying bed and chair exits in a pilot trial in hospitalized older people.

Falls in hospitals are common, therefore strategies to minimize the impact of these events in older patients and needs to be examined. In this pilot study, we investigate a movement monitoring sensor system for identifying bed and chair exits using a wireless wearable sensor worn by hospitalized old...

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Main Authors: Roberto L Shinmoto Torres, Renuka Visvanathan, Derek Abbott, Keith D Hill, Damith C Ranasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5633180?pdf=render