Level of Technological Maturity of Telemonitoring Systems Focused on Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis Treatment: A Systematic Literature Review

Autor: Alejandro Villanueva Cerón, Eduardo López Domínguez, Saúl Domínguez Isidro, María Auxilio Medina Nieto, Jorge De La Calleja, Saúl Eduardo Pomares Hernández
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Technologies, Vol 11, Iss 5, p 129 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-7080
DOI: 10.3390/technologies11050129
Popis: In the field of eHealth, several works have proposed telemonitoring systems focused on patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) treatment. Nevertheless, no secondary study presents a comparative analysis of these works regarding the technology readiness level (TRL) framework. The TRL scale goes from 1 to 9, with 1 being the lowest level of readiness and 9 being the highest. This paper analyzes works that propose telemonitoring systems focused on patients with CKD undergoing PD treatment to determine their TRL. We also analyzed the requirements and parameters that the systems of the selected works provide to the users to perform telemonitoring of the patient’s treatment undergoing PD. Fourteen works were relevant to the present study. Of these works, eight were classified within TRL 9, two were categorized within TRL 7, three were identified within TRL 6, and one within TRL 4. The works reported with the highest TRL partially cover the requirements for appropriate telemonitoring of patients based on the specialized literature; in addition, those works are focused on the treatment of patients in the automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) modality, which limits the care of patients undergoing the continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) modality.
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