@article{ref1,
title="Investigation of fall-risk using a wearable device with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes",
journal="Physiological measurement",
year="2006",
author="Giansanti, Daniele",
volume="27",
number="11",
pages="1081-1090",
abstract="A clinical tool and an associated test that can assess fall-risk in elderly patients have been designed. The clinical tool was based on a wearable device with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes to identify trunk kinematic parameters. The test was based on a posturography protocol with different constraints and statistical analysis of the kinematic parameters. Statistical clustering based on the Mahalanobis distance was carried out using three groups of 30 subjects (1, age < 65 years; 2, age > or = 65 years and 3, age > or = 65 years and a fall history). The method was statistically validated using three groups of 100 subjects. The test allowed discrimination of elderly subjects with a high fall-risk with high specificity > or = 0.930 and sensitivity > or = 0.939.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0967-3334",
doi="10.1088/0967-3334/27/11/003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/27/11/003"
}