When an administrative error results in Agent Fred being assigned to monitor Bob Arctor, Arctor/Fred has the strange experience of monitoring his own activities through the holographic scanning equipment that gives the novel its title.
To provide experience of monitoring the level of hypnosis with the Cerebral State Monitor (CSM), a device extracting a single numerical variable between 0 and 100 from the electroencephalogram in dogs sedated with medetomidine during dental scale removal.
Its decision to instead put the entire third-party industry on notice after rolling out its own screen time solution, however, seems to indicate it now wants to control the experience of monitoring screen time usage on iOS, and not leave it up to these third parties.
(Ophthalm3) Clinical experience whereby optometrists would gain experience of monitoring nAMD patients in a hospital setting was viewed as an essential component of training.
There was some evidence that the experience of monitoring APMS contracts in this way led PCT staff to think about traditional practices in a different way and in some cases consider introducing new targets into existing contracts: The targets and KPIs in the APMS contracts are very specific to the APMS contracts.
'Take less of the tablets" and that's how it went until I got a good reading regularly, good readings (Patient 7, monitoring group, previous experience of home monitoring with practice monitor) …I got an email from the doctor every week from the readings and he was able to advise me without me having to visit the doctor.
Because it's obviously coming from a machine and it tells me have I contacted my medical practice or nurse, which I have but it doesn't seem to know that, you see? (Patient 9, monitoring group, previous experience of home monitoring with practice monitor) it's the same message from presumably a machine [laughs] which doesn't help a lot.
I think that was a contributory factor to my BP balancing out (Patient 7, monitoring group, previous experience of home monitoring with practice monitor) When I was taking the blood pressure I couldn't bear looking at a hundred and forty, a hundred and fifty over a hundred and ten and I wanted to just be able to see better readings in a way.
Qualitative telephone interviews will be embedded in the research design to obtain feedback from a sample of participants' about their experiences of sleep monitoring, trial participation and interventions, and to inform the design of a fully powered future RCT.
In publishing our methodology and results in this paper, it is our hope that we might stimulate further commentary from academic and practitioner communities and encourage others to come forwards with their own experiences of performance monitoring of health research systems.
