Large-Scale Wearable Sensor Deployment in Parkinson's Patients: The Parkinson@Home Study Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term management of Parkinson's disease does not reach its full potential because we lack knowledge about individual variations in clinical presentation and disease progression. Continuous and longitudinal assessments in real-life (ie, within the patients' own home environment) might fill this knowledge gap.

Objective

The primary aim of the Parkinson@Home study is to evaluate the feasibility and compliance of using multiple wearable sensors to collect clinically relevant data. Our second aim is to address the usability of these data for answering clinical research questions. Finally, we aim to build a database for future validation of novel algorithms applied to sensor-derived data from Parkinson's patients during daily functioning.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Silva de Lima AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5018102 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature