University Hospital Tuebingen on Behalf of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, BG Hospital, Schnarrenbergstr. 95, Tuebingen 72076, Germany.
Human Motion, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and Digital Methods Group, Luxembourg, Institute of Health, Transversal activities, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Injury. 2022 Jun;53(6):1961-1965. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.026. Epub 2022 Mar 15.
The use of wearable sensors to track activity is increasing. Therefore, a survey among AO Trauma members was conducted to provide an overview of their current utilization and determine future needs and directions. A cross sectional expert opinion survey was administered to members of AO Trauma. Respondents were surveyed concerning their experience, subspeciality, current use characteristics, as well as future needs concerning wearable technology. Three hundred and thirty-three survey sets were available for analysis (Response Rate 16.2%). 20.7% of respondents already use wearable technology as part of their clinical treatment. The most prevalent technology was accelerometry combined with smartphones (75.4%) to measure general patient activity. To facilitate the use of wearable technology in the future, the most pressing issues were cost, patient compliance and validity of results. Wearable activity monitors are currently being used in trauma surgery. Surgeons employing these technologies mostly measure simple activity or activity associated parameters. Cost was the greatest perceived barrier to implementation. Further research, especially concerning the interpretation of the outcome values obtained, is required to facilitate wearable activity monitoring as an objective patient outcome measurement tool.
可穿戴传感器在活动追踪方面的应用正在增加。因此，对 AO 创伤学会的成员进行了一项调查，以提供其当前使用情况的概述，并确定未来的需求和方向。对 AO 创伤学会的成员进行了横断面专家意见调查。调查对象被问及他们的经验、专业领域、当前使用特征，以及对可穿戴技术的未来需求。共有 333 套调查资料可供分析（回复率为 16.2%）。20.7%的受访者已经将可穿戴技术作为其临床治疗的一部分。最常见的技术是将加速度计与智能手机结合使用（75.4%）来测量一般患者的活动。为了促进可穿戴技术在未来的应用，最紧迫的问题是成本、患者依从性和结果的有效性。可穿戴活动监测器目前正在创伤外科中使用。使用这些技术的外科医生主要测量简单的活动或与活动相关的参数。成本是实施的最大感知障碍。需要进一步的研究，特别是关于对所获得的结果值的解释，以促进可穿戴活动监测作为客观的患者结果测量工具。
