Exploring clinicians' perspectives on falls, balance and gait assessments to inform wearable device development. "Adding to the bigger picture of the patient in falls assessments".

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Falls represent a major healthcare burden with significant costs to healthcare systems as well as individual patients. Falls assessments are complex, multifactorial and often involve input from multiple specialists. Collecting data to contribute to these assessments is typically done by clinical history and examination. Wearable monitoring systems that are capable of recording patient-specific data related to falls and falls risk factors may represent a rich source of information for patients and clinicians to inform their assessment and treatment plans. Here we present the findings of multimodal qualitative study that aimed to identify clinicians' perspectives on key features of falls assessments as well as the potential utilisation of wearable monitoring devices in t

SUBMITTER: Dunne H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12715005 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature