Home Video Telemetry vs inpatient telemetry: A comparative study looking at video quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the quality of home video recording with inpatient telemetry (IPT) to evaluate our current Home Video Telemetry (HVT) practice.

Method

To assess our HVT practice, a retrospective comparison of the video quality against IPT was conducted with the latter as the gold standard. A pilot study had been conducted in 2008 on 5 patients.Patients (n = 28) were included in each group over a period of one year.The data was collected from referral spreadsheets, King's EPR and telemetry archive.Scoring of the events captured was by consensus using two scorers.The variables compared included: visibility of the body part of interest, visibility of eyes, time of event, illumination, contrast, sound quality and picture clarity when amplified to 200%.Statistical eva

SUBMITTER: Biswas S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123857 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature