@misc{10481/55352,
year = {2018},
month = {10},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/55352},
abstract = {Performance Status (PS) variability is a powerful tool to evaluate overall condition,
treatment needs and survival chances of cancer patients. Traditionally, its assessment has relied on the
experience of oncologists when interpreting results of clinical tests and when interviewing the patients.
Meanwhile, consumer-level activity trackers have obtained good results in behavior-change oriented
intervention trials and Fitbit devices have demonstrated enough reliability to provide objective data
related to physical activity, but the clinical possibilities of the data collected has been neglected.
This work presents a system design for ubiquitous assessment of PS by means of objective and
quantifiable data from different sources: medical history, self-reported quality-of-life questionnaires
and a commercial activity tracker Fitbit Alta HR. The system proposed aims to contextualize and
model the recovery process of breast cancer patients during chemotherapy treatment.},
organization = {This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
(MINECO) Projects TIN2015-71873-R and TIN2015-67020-P together with the European Fund for Regional
Development (FEDER). This work has also been partially supported by the FPU Spanish Grant FPU16/04201.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Ubiquitous},
keywords = {e-Health},
keywords = {Chemotherapy},
keywords = {Cancer},
keywords = {Performance status},
keywords = {Physical activity},
keywords = {Fitbit},
title = {Ubiquitous Assessment of the Recovery of Cancer Patients Using Consumer-Level Activity Trackers},
author = {Moreno Gutiérrez, Salvador and Damas Hermoso, Miguel and Rojas Ruiz, Ignacio and Amezcua, Víctor and Gutierrez-Pastor, Pilar and Ubago Jiménez, José Luis},
}