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First trial of home ECG and blood pressure telemonitoring system in Macau
1Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Objective:
To determine the feasibility of home monitoring of patients with cardiac disease or hypertension.
Methods:
An improved home electrocardiographic and blood pressure telemonitoring system linked to a central workstation was tested in 10 patients in Macau for 3 months.
Results:
The total number of connections was 1377. Of the automatic alarm connections, 32.5% were false positive, with the percentage of false positives ranging from 7.6 to 54.6 for different patients. Both patients and physicians found the system easy to use.
Conclusions:
Further investigation is required to match the number of patients with the system capacity. A more robust dysrhythmia detection algorithm is needed to reduce the number of false alarms. Nevertheless, the results were sufficiently good that the trial is being expanded.