Measuring body temperature wirelessly: acceptance in a hospital environment and possible surveillance implications

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23640%2F21%3A43964044" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23640/21:43964044 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJEH.2021.117831" target="_blank" >https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJEH.2021.117831</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEH.2021.10040436" target="_blank" >10.1504/IJEH.2021.10040436</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measuring body temperature wirelessly: acceptance in a hospital environment and possible surveillance implications

Original language description

In this study, we present measuring and monitoring body temperature using a device that can gather data about temperature and send them wirelessly to a router that sends the data to a computer where the patients’ temperatures can be read. The computer can also create a temperature timeline for assessing patients’ temperature history and alert staff when any monitored patient has a high temperature. We employed the participative approach throughout the developing and testing process and conducted a research using a mixed-methods approach focused on acceptance of the device in a hospital environment. We found out that the device could be implemented in a hospital practice without any major technical problem, except for attachment of the device, but it poses a potential ethical problem, as the wireless thermometer can contribute to surveillance culture/atmosphere. Thus, excessive surveillance as an ethical issue needs to be addressed rather than technical issues.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20601 - Medical engineering

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

ISSN

1741-8453

e-ISSN

1741-8461

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

331-347

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85116357572