17 patients accessed messages from the respiratory research nurse (mean 29.7 times, range 0 169) (Fig. 2).> There were a total of 189 alerts generated: 47 symptom diary alerts were received from 16 participants (mean 2.9, SD1.6), 80 pulse rate alerts were received from 18 participants (mean 4.4, SD2.5) and 62 oxygen saturation alerts were received from 17 participants, (mean 3.6 SD2.6).
However, patients can be stable, whilst providing physiological measurements that might permanently lead to alerts (e.g. 92 % is often used as a threshold for alerting on Oxygen saturation, yet some patients are stable at lower levels, and some patients might repeatedly report certain symptoms thus increasing their scores).
This paper reports findings from a six-month, clinical, cohort study of COPD patients' use of a mobile telehealth based (mHealth) application and how individually determined alerts in oxygen saturation levels, pulse rate and symptoms scores related to patient self-initiated treatment for exacerbations.
Noninvasive VS data including ECG-derived heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP), and pulse oxygen saturation (SpO2) is monitored to issue alerts whenever VS exceed any of pre-set stability thresholds [1].
Certain pulse oximeters would give out audible sound to alert users of low oxygen saturation.
For each patient, an initial 6-week (training) period was used to generate personalised alert thresholds for symptom score, oxygen saturation, and pulse rate.
There are large F obs − F calc differences present in the current data as indicated through checkCIF level C PLAT918 alerts, which are due to pixel saturation arising from the use of high-flux radiation.
The mean number of alerts related to the blood oxygen saturation level and heart-rate in the five days prior to cause-specific admissions was significantly higher than that registered over the entire monitoring period (Table 4).
Data collected on the secure server were analysed using patient-specific probabilistic models in order to compute an alert threshold for each data type (symptom score, oxygen saturation and pulse rate), for each patient.
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