Neurological Outpatients Prefer EEG Home-Monitoring over Inpatient Monitoring-An Analysis Based on the UTAUT Model.

Home monitoring examinations offer diagnostic and economic advantages compared to inpatient monitoring. In addition, these technical solutions support the preservation of health care in rural areas in the absence of local care providers. The acceptance of patients is crucial for the implementation of home monitoring concepts.

Feasibility assessment of patient-controlled EEG home-monitoring: More results from the HOME study.

Objective: The feasibility phase of the HOME (Home-Monitoing and Education) project aims to show the practical feasibility of Electroencephalography (EEG)home-monitoring using a patient-controlled mobile system. Its objective is to assess the potential diagnostic and therapeutic yields of home-monitoring compared to conventional healthcare.

Methods: 16 office-based practitioners chose 97 patients and recorded standard 20-minute EEGs using conventional recorders.

Assessment of the technical usability and efficacy of a new portable dry-electrode EEG recorder: First results of the HOME study.

Objectives: The HOME project is intended to provide evidence of diagnostic and therapeutic yield of a patient-controlled EEG home-monitoring for neurological outpatients.

Methods: This study evaluated the technical and practical usability and efficacy of a new portable dry-electrode EEG recorder in comparison to conventional EEG devices based on technical assessments and inter-rater comparisons of EEG record examinations of office-based practitioners and two experienced neurologists.

Results: The technical assessment was based on channel-wise comparisons of band power values derived from power spectra as observed in two recording modalities.

Diagnostic and therapeutic yield of a patient-controlled portable EEG device with dry electrodes for home-monitoring neurological outpatients-rationale and protocol of the HOME pilot study.

Background: The HOME study is part of the larger project, which aims to provide evidence of diagnostic and therapeutic yield ("change of management") of a patient-controlled portable EEG device with dry electrodes for the purposes of EEG home-monitoring neurological outpatients.

Methods: The HOME study is the first step in the process of investigating whether outpatient EEG home-monitoring changes the diagnosis and treatment of patients in comparison to conventional EEG ("change of management"). Both EEG devices (conventional and portable) will be systematically compared via a two-phase intra-individual assessment.