2025/03/21 by Qimeng Zhao, Liu, Yuwei, Li, Ka +1
#FOS: Health sciences #Medicine and Health Sciences #Nursing
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/v6sp8
Despite the increasing interest in wearable temperature monitoring devices in clinical practice, their integration into routine clinical workflows remains limited. There is a growing need to map the existing evidence on the use of wearables-generated data in acute care environments, to facilitate its incorporation into clinical workflows and enhance the interpretation of temperature data to support clinical decision-making. A scoping review of relevant literature from 2013 to present will be conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review methodology. A search of Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL and IEEE Xplore Databases will be undertaken to identify studies that use wearable devices to monitor patients' body temperature in acute hospital settings to support the management of fever or infections. A pilot search has been conducted to identify key search terms and specific types of wearable devices followed by analysis of retrieved literature. A hand search of the reference lists and citation lists of eligible articles and reviews will be conducted for additional publications which meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We will use a two-step screening process to identify eligible articles, starting with title/abstract screening, followed by full-text screening. Primary research studies published in English and Chinese will be included regardless of their design and type of literature. Information on the types of wearable devices, clinical contexts of device usage, methods of presenting and analyzing temperature data, and their integration into clinical workflows will be extracted. In the final scoping review, we will provide a descriptive synthesis of the findings, supported by visual representations such as charts, tables, and images to describe the current evidence base.