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| Title |
Leaving patients to their own devices? Smart technology, safety and therapeutic relationships
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, March 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12910-018-0255-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anita Ho, Oliver Quick |
| Abstract |
This debate article explores how smart technologies may create a double-edged sword for patient safety and effective therapeutic relationships. Increasing utilization of health monitoring devices by patients will likely become an important aspect of self-care and preventive medicine. It may also help to enhance accurate symptom reports, diagnoses, and prompt referral to specialist care where appropriate. However, the development, marketing, and use of such technology raise significant ethical implications for therapeutic relationships and patient safety. Drawing on lessons learned from other direct-to-consumer health products such as genetic testing, this article explores how smart technology can also pose regulatory challenges and encourage overutilization of healthcare services. In order for smart technology to promote safer care and effective therapeutic encounters, the technology and its utilization must be safe. This article argues for unified regulatory guidelines and better education for both healthcare providers and patients regarding the benefits and risks of these devices. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 27% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% |
| Chile | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 73% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 27% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 142 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 18% |
| Researcher | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 25 | 18% |
| Unknown | 49 | 35% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 31 | 22% |
| Unknown | 57 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 October 2022.
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#2,191,137
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#223
of 1,009 outputs
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#47,986
of 333,924 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#8
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,009 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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