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2012

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A decision making approach for the remote, personalized evaluation of COPD patients' health status

Colantonio S., Dellacà R. L., Govoni L., Martinelli M., Salvetti O., Vitacca M.

Decision Support Patients' Monitoring Personalized Healthcare

This paper presents a decision making approach for the remote management of COPD patients based on the early detection of disease exacerbation episodes. An e-diary card is defined to evaluate a number of physiological variables and clinical parameters acquired remotely by means of wearable and environmental sensors deployed in patients' long-stay settings. The automatic evaluation of the card results in a socalled Chronic Status Index (CSI) whose computation is tailored to patients' specific manifestation of the disease (i.e., patient's phenotype). The decision support method relies on a parameterized analysis of CSI variations so as to early detect worsening changes, identify exacerbation severity and track the patterns of recovery. A web-based service has been set up and simulation tests have shown the feasibility of the method. Validity and sensitivity are currently being evaluated in a trail study with 30 COPD patients, monitored at home.

Source: BSI2012 - 7th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, pp. 347–350, Como, Italy, 2-4 Luglio 2012

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@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:219029,
	title = {A decision making approach for the remote, personalized evaluation of COPD patients' health status},
	author = {Colantonio S. and Dellacà R.  L. and Govoni L. and Martinelli M. and Salvetti O. and Vitacca M.},
	booktitle = {BSI2012 - 7th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, pp. 347–350, Como, Italy, 2-4 Luglio 2012},
	year = {2012}
}