Evaluation of Home Health Care Devices: Remote Usability Assessment
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Evaluation of Home Health Care Devices: Remote Usability Assessment
BACKGROUND An increasing amount of health care is now performed in a home setting, away from the hospital. While there is growing anecdotal evidence about the difficulty patients and caregivers have using increasingly complex health care devices in the home, there has been little systematic scientific study to quantify the global nature of home health care device usability in the field. Researc...
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عنوان ژورنال: JMIR Human Factors
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2292-9495
DOI: 10.2196/humanfactors.4570