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A Health Condition Alarm System has been developed to provide practitioners an update on their patients’ conditions in real-time. This paper focuses on how researchers and doctors can use the system to create vital sign ranges and alarm levels as well as to see the alarm alerts. The system is web-based and open-access, and the research team would like to collaborate with practitioners, hospitals, laboratories, and medical professionals to expand the system’s application domains. The research team has leveraged two quality control methods, X-Chart and Westgard Multi-Rule, to decide the alarm level of a patient’s health condition and the alarm timing. Four alarm levels (i.e., normal, subnormal, cautious, and alert) can then be decided by the mean values and standard deviations of the patient examination data.
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Chang, M., Aggrey, E., Sayed, M., Kinshuk (2013). Health Condition Alarm System. In: Imamura, K., Usui, S., Shirao, T., Kasamatsu, T., Schwabe, L., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain and Health Informatics. BHI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02753-1_31
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