Published on in Vol 6, No 6 (2018): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10046, first published .
Feasibility of Using a Smartwatch to Intensively Monitor Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prospective Cohort Study

Feasibility of Using a Smartwatch to Intensively Monitor Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prospective Cohort Study

Feasibility of Using a Smartwatch to Intensively Monitor Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Prospective Cohort Study

Robert Wu   1, 2 , MSc, MD ;   Daniyal Liaqat   3 , BSc ;   Eyal de Lara   3 , PhD ;   Tatiana Son   4 , MA ;   Frank Rudzicz   3, 4 , PhD ;   Hisham Alshaer   4 , MD, PhD ;   Pegah Abed-Esfahani   3 , BSc ;   Andrea S Gershon   2, 5, 6 , MSc, MD

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

2 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

3 Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

4 Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

5 Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

6 School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Corresponding Author:

  • Robert Wu, MSc, MD
  • Division of General Internal Medicine
  • University Health Network
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