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Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been increasingly popular in rehabilitation research. However, despite their accessibility and potential advantages, their uptake and acceptance by health professionals remain a big challenge. The development of an IMU-based clinical tool must bring together en...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33186363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241922 |
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author | Routhier, François Duclos, Noémie C. Lacroix, Émilie Lettre, Josiane Turcotte, Elizabeth Hamel, Nathalie Michaud, François Duclos, Cyril Archambault, Philippe S. Bouyer, Laurent J. |
author_facet | Routhier, François Duclos, Noémie C. Lacroix, Émilie Lettre, Josiane Turcotte, Elizabeth Hamel, Nathalie Michaud, François Duclos, Cyril Archambault, Philippe S. Bouyer, Laurent J. |
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description | Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been increasingly popular in rehabilitation research. However, despite their accessibility and potential advantages, their uptake and acceptance by health professionals remain a big challenge. The development of an IMU-based clinical tool must bring together engineers, researchers and clinicians. This study is part of a developmental process with the investigation of clinicians’ perspectives about IMUs. Clinicians from four rehabilitation centers were invited to a 30-minute presentation on IMUs. Then, two one-hour focus groups were conducted with volunteer clinicians in each rehabilitation center on: 1) IMUs and their clinical usefulness, and 2) IMUs data analysis and visualization interface. Fifteen clinicians took part in the first focus groups. They expressed their thoughts on: 1) categories of variables that would be useful to measure with IMUs in clinical practice, and 2) desired characteristics of the IMUs. Twenty-three clinicians participated to the second focus groups, discussing: 1) functionalities, 2) display options, 3) clinical data reported and associated information, and 4) data collection duration. Potential influence of IMUs on clinical practice and added value were discussed in both focus groups. Clinicians expressed positive opinions about the use of IMUs, but their expectations were high before considering using IMUs in their practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-76656282020-11-18 Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice Routhier, François Duclos, Noémie C. Lacroix, Émilie Lettre, Josiane Turcotte, Elizabeth Hamel, Nathalie Michaud, François Duclos, Cyril Archambault, Philippe S. Bouyer, Laurent J. PLoS One Research Article Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been increasingly popular in rehabilitation research. However, despite their accessibility and potential advantages, their uptake and acceptance by health professionals remain a big challenge. The development of an IMU-based clinical tool must bring together engineers, researchers and clinicians. This study is part of a developmental process with the investigation of clinicians’ perspectives about IMUs. Clinicians from four rehabilitation centers were invited to a 30-minute presentation on IMUs. Then, two one-hour focus groups were conducted with volunteer clinicians in each rehabilitation center on: 1) IMUs and their clinical usefulness, and 2) IMUs data analysis and visualization interface. Fifteen clinicians took part in the first focus groups. They expressed their thoughts on: 1) categories of variables that would be useful to measure with IMUs in clinical practice, and 2) desired characteristics of the IMUs. Twenty-three clinicians participated to the second focus groups, discussing: 1) functionalities, 2) display options, 3) clinical data reported and associated information, and 4) data collection duration. Potential influence of IMUs on clinical practice and added value were discussed in both focus groups. Clinicians expressed positive opinions about the use of IMUs, but their expectations were high before considering using IMUs in their practice. Public Library of Science 2020-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7665628/ /pubmed/33186363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241922 Text en © 2020 Routhier et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Routhier, François Duclos, Noémie C. Lacroix, Émilie Lettre, Josiane Turcotte, Elizabeth Hamel, Nathalie Michaud, François Duclos, Cyril Archambault, Philippe S. Bouyer, Laurent J. Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title | Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title_full | Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title_fullStr | Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title_short | Clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
title_sort | clinicians’ perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33186363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241922 |
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