Abstract
Monitoring of patients' weight has an important role in medical care. It has particular importance for the home management of patients with heart failure. The monitoring of daily weights plays a critical role in keeping their disease under control. In this study we explore the accuracy, inherent normal variability, and clinically significant changes in weight by observing daily weights in a sample of 44 patients with heart failure. Our analysis shows that self-reported weights are fairly reliable for the purposes of being able to detect early complications due to the heart failure disease process.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3665-3668 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
Volume | 4 |
State | Published - 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | A New Beginning for Human Health: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Cancun, Mexico Duration: Sep 17 2003 → Sep 21 2003 |
Keywords
- Heart failure
- Home health
- Monitoring
- Variability of measurements
- Weight
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics