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Integrating Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) into Healthcare Professional Practices: A Scoping Review

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging (HCII 2020)

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Seeking effective approaches to integrate technology into formal healthcare professionals’ daily works has been acknowledged as challenging. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent research concerning the implementation of personal emergency response systems (PERSs), with the focus on the routine use of PERS among formal healthcare professionals, as well as identify current gaps in this area.

The scoping review followed the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley and PRISMA-Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Searches were performed in PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and the Web of Science Core Collection for studies published from 2009 to 2019. Any peer-reviewed studies in English describing strategies, barriers, and facilitators, or assessing the impact of integrating PERS into healthcare professional practices fulfilled the inclusion eligibility. Two reviewers screened the manuscripts and extracted data independently, with a third reviewer resolving discrepancies. Due to a large heterogeneity of included studies, a narrative synthesis was conducted.

In total, 25 studies were included out of 2,319 manuscripts. This study discusses supportive strategies, and enabling and inhibiting factors, as well as integration outcomes. Future studies can contribute to three gaps by examining: 1) how strategies such as training contribute to the effectiveness of technology integration separately and collectively; 2) how working environments affect the effectiveness of realizing operational works; and 3) how technology is shaped by social environments and relationships.

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Chang, F., Kuoppamäki, S., Östlund, B. (2020). Integrating Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) into Healthcare Professional Practices: A Scoping Review. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50249-2_3

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