Application of Wearable Technologies in Fall Risk Assessment and Improvement in Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy: A Systematic Review
Table 1
Search queries used for each database.
Database
Query
Hits
Scopus
TITLE-ABS-KEY ((neuropathy OR “peripheral neuropathy” OR “peripheral nervous system diseases”) AND (device OR wearable OR accelerometer) AND (risk OR detect OR predict OR prevent) AND (fall OR stumble OR misstep))
70
IEEE Xplore
(neuropathy OR “peripheral neuropathy” OR “peripheral nervous system diseases”) AND (device OR wearable OR accelerometer) AND (risk OR detect OR predict OR prevent) AND (fall OR stumble OR misstep)
3
Web of Science
(TS=(neuropathy) OR TS=(peripheral neuropathy) OR TS=(“peripheral nervous system diseases”)) AND (TS=(device) OR TS=(wearable) OR TS=(accelerometer)) AND (TS=(prevent) OR TS=(risk) OR TS=(detect) OR TS=(predict)) AND (TS=(fall) OR TS=(stumble) OR TS=(misstep))
102
PubMed
(“peripheral neuropathy” OR “peripheral nervous system diseases” [MeSH] OR neuropathy) AND (device OR wearable OR accelerometer) AND (risk OR detect OR predict OR prevent) AND (“accidental falls” [MesH] OR fall or stumble or misstep)
90
Embase
(“peripheral neuropathy”/exp OR “peripheral nervous system diseases” OR neuropathy) AND (device OR wearable OR accelerometer) AND (risk OR detect OR predict OR prevent) AND (fall OR stumble OR misstep OR “falling”/exp)
