PATIENT MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM
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1. A patient monitoring method comprising:
- monitoring motion of a subject patient and generating motion data indicative of at least one aspect of the subject'"'"'s motion;
processing said motion data to generate at least one statistical parameter of said data;
identifying a person type of the subject according to a plurality of characteristics;
accessing a database containing a plurality of stored, predetermined statistical parameters classified according to a plurality of said person types, each stored statistical parameter being a statistical parameter of motion data corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of person types and having been determined by a method comprising processing of motion data obtained by monitoring motion of at least one person having said respective one of said plurality of person types; and
processing at least one said generated statistical parameter and at least one of said stored statistical parameters corresponding to the person type of said subject patient.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to patient monitoring methods and patient monitoring systems for monitoring at least one aspect of a subject patient'"'"'s motion alone or with one or more additional patient subject related measurements. The patient monitoring method and system can be a useful clinical tool in the monitoring of patients, and in particular, although not exclusively orthopaedic patients, both pre-treatment and post treatment.
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1. A patient monitoring method comprising:
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monitoring motion of a subject patient and generating motion data indicative of at least one aspect of the subject'"'"'s motion; processing said motion data to generate at least one statistical parameter of said data; identifying a person type of the subject according to a plurality of characteristics; accessing a database containing a plurality of stored, predetermined statistical parameters classified according to a plurality of said person types, each stored statistical parameter being a statistical parameter of motion data corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of person types and having been determined by a method comprising processing of motion data obtained by monitoring motion of at least one person having said respective one of said plurality of person types; and processing at least one said generated statistical parameter and at least one of said stored statistical parameters corresponding to the person type of said subject patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A patient monitoring system comprising:
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motion monitoring means adapted to monitor motion of a subject patient and generate motion data indicative of at least one aspect of the subject'"'"'s motion; processing means arranged to process said motion data to generate at least one statistical parameter of said data; identification means arranged to identify a person type of the subject according to a plurality of characteristics; a database containing a plurality of stored, predetermined statistical parameters classified according to a plurality of said person types, each stored statistical parameter being an expected statistical parameter of motion data corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of person types; and processing means arranged to process at least one said generated statistical parameter and at least one of said stored statistical parameters corresponding to the person type of said subject patient. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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