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Table 13 Health care settings and component types

From: Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review

  

Health care settings

Component types

 

Ambulatory

Home/mobile

Clinical

Care

Emergency

Conventional mobile devices

n (%)

2 (3%)

14 (21%)

15 (22%)

3 (4%)

6 (9%)

 

References

[84, 91]

[22, 26, 28, 30, 36, 40, 4850, 57, 69, 85, 86, 88]

[13, 29, 43, 44, 54, 61, 64, 70, 71, 7476, 78, 8183, 87, 88]

[64, 69, 73]

[54, 60, 63, 80, 87, 91]

Wearables

n (%)

2 (3%)

19 (28%)

8 (12%)

2 (3%)

3 (4%)

 

References

[31, 46]

[2124, 28, 30, 31, 38, 41, 42, 45, 4853, 57, 62]

[4144, 46, 47, 5356]

[39, 73]

[24, 54, 60]

Implanted devices

n (%)

0

2 (3%)

0

0

0

 

References

 

[58, 59]

   

Stationary devices

n (%)

1 (1%)

22 (33%)

10 (15%)

4 (6%)

0

 

References

[84]

[21, 23, 27, 28, 30, 3338, 40, 45, 53, 59, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72]

[13, 32, 53, 61, 64, 7477, 79]

[39, 64, 67, 69]

 
  1. Note: Multiple entries in different categories are possible. The percentages refer to all 67 systems reviewed.