Mobile and pervasive computing technologies and the future of Alzheimer’s clinical trials

The rapid growth of mobile phones, automated speech recognizing personal assistants, and internet access among the elderly provides new opportunities for incorporating such technologies into clinical research and personalized medical care. Alzheimer’s disease is a good test case given the need for e...

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Autores principales: Doraiswamy, P. Murali, Narayan, Vaibhav A., Manji, Husseini K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
Materias:
Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-017-0008-y
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Sumario:The rapid growth of mobile phones, automated speech recognizing personal assistants, and internet access among the elderly provides new opportunities for incorporating such technologies into clinical research and personalized medical care. Alzheimer’s disease is a good test case given the need for early detection, the high rate of clinical trial failures, the need to more efficiently recruit patients for trials, and the need for sensitive and ecologically valid trial outcomes.

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