Wearable Fitness Trackers to Predict Clinical Deterioration in Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Prospective Cohort Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

People receiving hemodialysis often require urgent care or hospitalizations. It is possible that reductions in a patient's level of physical activity may serve as an "early warning" of clinical deterioration, allowing timely clinical intervention. We explored whether step count could serve as a trigger for deterioration.

Study design

Prospective observational cohort feasibility study.

Setting & participants

We recruited consenting adult participants from outpatient dialysis clinics in Calgary, AB, between June 28, 2019, and October 10, 2019.

Exposure and outcomes

Participants wore a wristband fitness tracker for 4 weeks. Activity data from the trackers were imported weekly into the study database. Demographic, clinical management, function

SUBMITTER: Lunney M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515069 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature