TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Investigation of fall-risk using a wearable device with accelerometers and rate gyroscopes
JO  - Physiological measurement
A1  - Giansanti, Daniele
SP  - 1081
EP  - 1090
VL  - 27
IS  - 11
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0967-3334
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/27/11/003
ID  - ref1
ER  -