Title
Continual Screening of Patients Using mHealth: The Rolling Score Concept Applied to Sleep Medicine.
Abstract
Continual monitoring of patients utilizing mHealth-based telemonitoring applications are more and more used for individual management of patients. A new approach in risk assessment called Rolling Score Concept uses standardized questionnaires for continual scoring of individuals' health state through electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO). Using self-rated questionnaires and adding a specific Time Schedule to each question result in a movement of the questionnaires' scores over time, the Rolling Score. A text-processing pipeline was implemented with KNIME analytics platform to extract a Score Mapping Rule Set for three standardized screening questionnaires in the field of sleep medicine. A feasibility study was performed in 10 healthy volunteers equipped with a mHealth application on a smartphone and a sleep tracker. Results show that the proposed Rolling Score Concept is feasible and deviations of scores are in a reasonable range (<7%), sustaining the new approach. However, further studies are required for verification. In addition, parameter quantification could avoid incorrect subjective evaluation by substitution of questions with sensor data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3233/978-1-61499-645-3-237
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Risk assessment,screening,questionnaires,ePRO,telehealth
Alternative medicine,Sleep medicine,Physical therapy,mHealth,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
223
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudio Zluga100.34
Robert Modre-Osprian2257.22
peter kastner314.15
Günter Schreier45623.73