What is it about?
This is a scoping review of the academic and medical literature that report on mobile heart monitoring devices that measure heart palpitations and heart rhythm problens (arrhythmia). The review was conducted between February and March 2018. Five electronic databases were searched: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CINHAL, Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scopus.
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Why is it important?
This scoping review highlights that further work is required to understand the impact of mobile heart monitoring devices on how arrhythmias and palpitations are assessed and measured across all populations and ages of society. This review demonstrated he lack of knowledge and insight from primary care providers and lack of qualitative material. We argue that future studies consider qualitative and mixed methods approaches to complement quantitative methodologies and to ensure all actors’ experiences are recorded.
Perspectives
This review demonstrated how mobile heart monitoring devices can support primary care providers to deliver high levels of care at a low cost to the service provider. It also revealed the lack of knowledge and insight from primary care providers and lack of qualitative material.
Dr Robin A Hadley
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Mobile Self-Monitoring ECG Devices to Diagnose Arrhythmia that Coincide with Palpitations: A Scoping Review, Healthcare, August 2019, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare7030096.
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