Chan Hui Yun
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Asian Bioeth Rev. 2024 Jan 20;16(4):757-769. doi: 10.1007/s41649-023-00272-3. eCollection 2024 Oct.
Post COVID-19 infections resulting in long COVID symptoms remain persistent yet neglected in healthcare priorities. Although long COVID symptoms are expected to decline after some time, many people continue to endure its debilitating effects affecting their daily lives. The diversity of characteristics amongst long COVID patients adds to the complexity of communicating personal health predicaments to healthcare providers. Recent research towards building an evidence base for long COVID with the aim of delivering responsive healthcare interventions for long COVID patients has utilised datasets generated from wearable devices. This paper examines the prospects presented by wearable devices for long COVID patients and physicians. It highlights distinct ethical and legal challenges arising from their use in practice. Several recommendations aiming to support their usage amongst long COVID patients are outlined for future research using wearable devices for long COVID treatment.
新冠病毒感染后出现的长期新冠症状持续存在,但在医疗保健优先事项中却被忽视。尽管长期新冠症状预计在一段时间后会有所减轻,但许多人仍继续忍受其对日常生活造成的衰弱影响。长期新冠患者症状特征的多样性增加了向医疗保健提供者传达个人健康困境的复杂性。最近为建立长期新冠的证据基础以旨在为长期新冠患者提供针对性医疗干预措施而进行的研究利用了可穿戴设备生成的数据集。本文探讨了可穿戴设备为长期新冠患者和医生带来的前景。它强调了在实际使用中出现的独特伦理和法律挑战。针对未来使用可穿戴设备治疗长期新冠的研究,概述了一些旨在支持其在长期新冠患者中使用的建议。