Quality of Care Perceived by Older Patients and Caregivers in Integrated Care Pathways With Interviewing Assistance From a Social Robot: Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
Published Date: Sep 9, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Society is facing a global shortage of 17 million health care workers, along with increasing health care demands from a growing number of older adults. Social robots are being considered as solutions to part of this problem.

Authors

  • Roel Boumans
    Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands roel.boumans@radboudumc.nl.
  • Fokke van Meulen
    Department of Geriatrics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • William van Aalst
    Geriatric Department, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Joyce Albers
    Geriatric Department, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Marèse Janssen
    Geriatric Department, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Marieke Peters-Kop
    Geriatric Department, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Getty Huisman-de Waal
    IQ healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Alexandra van de Poll
    Geriatric Department, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Koen Hindriks
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • Mark Neerincx
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • Marcel Olde Rikkert
    Geriatric Department, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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