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Home-Based Monitor for Gait and Activity Analysis
Published on: August 8, 2019
Improving Digital Patient Care: Lessons Learned from Patient-Reported and Expert-Reported Experience Measures for the
Maria Scholz1, Rocco Haase1, Katrin Trentzsch1
1Center of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl-Gustav Carus, Dresden University of Technology, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Background:
Walking assessment (WA) enables meaningful patient mobility assessment. In this context, patient satisfaction with WA can influence assessment compliance and indirectly affect outcomes. One opportunity to assess patient satisfaction is patient-reported and expert-reported experience measures (PREM). Research on PREMs and WA in daily clinical multiple sclerosis (MS) practice does not exist yet.
Methods:
We surveyed people with MS about their experience and assessed healthcare professionals' experience via an interview after patients completed WA.
Results:
Gait parameters were related to perceived difficulty and strain during performance. Less impaired patients perceived the WA to be less difficult and exhausting but were less likely to use WA results for themselves. Men and patients with higher impairment would perform WA more frequently. A good workflow, a fully performed WA with standardized testing, fully functional measurement systems, support and safeguarding by staff in case of falls, direct feedback after the testing, and patients' motivation are identified by the experts as necessary factors for a successful WA.
Conclusions:
As patients' experience has an impact on patients' outcomes, long-term monitoring of PREMs should become an integral part of the healthcare service to identify and avoid problems early.
