BACKGROUND Management of individual triggers is suboptimal in practice. In this project, we investigated the impact of symptom perception interventions on asthma trigger identification and self-reported asthma quality of life. METHODS Children with asthma (n=227) participated in three asthma education sessions and then were randomized first to one of three home monitoring conditions (symptom ...

for making life more comfortable, safer and more intelligent, a system for remote monitoring of smart home is proposed based on ARM and ZigBee. This system not only can centralize and monitor family affairs by gathering computer technology, embedded technology, sensor technology, and network communication technology, but also can meet the pursuit of high quality life in the information age by c...

This work presents the ongoing research in the field of integrated multidisciplinary research on wearable systems for healthcare monitoring and advanced aids for personal communication and home automation control based on BCI systems. Biomedical engineers and designers cooperated to overcome technological user acceptance which is one of the most challenging issue to the real usability of these ...

Patients going home following major surgery are susceptible to complications such as wound infection, abscess formation, malnutrition, poor analgesia, and depression, all of which can develop after the fifth postoperative day and slow recovery. Although current hospital recovery monitoring systems are effective during perioperative and early postoperative periods, they cannot be used when the p...

This is a review article on home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) developed with the purpose to increase the current scientific knowledge and present the importance of this approach in the care to patients with hypertension in our setting. This technique has advantages over the causal measurement, as it provides more measurements, a better relationship with the target-organs injuries, it also q...

the monitoring of epileptic seizures is mainly done by means of eeg (electroencephalogram) monitoring. although this method is accurate, it is not comfortable for the patient as the eeg-electrodes have to be attached to the scalp which hampers the patient’s movement. this makes long term home monitoring not feasible. in this paper the aim is to propose a seizure detection system based on accele...

THE SLEEP HEART HEALTH STUDY (SHHS) IS A LARGE MULTICENTER COHORT STUDY USING UNATTENDED HOME POLYSOMNOGRAPHY (PSG) TO ASSESS THE INTENSITY OF SLEEP-DISORDERED BREATHING IN RELATION TO CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. Implicit in the SHHS methodology is an assumption that a single overnight PSG performed in the home captures a representative image of sleep-disordered breathing encountered at times when ...

Home blood pressure monitoring is useful in detecting white-coat and masked hypertension and is recommended for patients with suspected or treated hypertension. The prognostic significance of white-coat and masked hypertension detected by home measurement was investigated in 6458 participants from 5 populations enrolled in the International Database of HOme blood pressure in relation to Cardiov...

home uterine activity monitoring (huam) has demonstrated to be of great value for preventing preterm labor in recent years. in this research, a low cost monitoring device for non-invasive monitoring of the uterine activity in pregnant women is presented. the new device has been designed based on an inductive colpitz oscillator and vertical displacement of a ferrite core in a coil. the resulting...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the role of home monitoring, communication with pharmacists, medication intensification, medication adherence and lifestyle factors in contributing to the effectiveness of an intervention to improve blood pressure control in patients with uncontrolled essential hypertension. METHODS We performed a mediation analysis of a published randomized trial based on the Chronic C...