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Table 3 Number of studies by technology category and specific target setting

From: Digital technology and nursing care: a scoping review on acceptance, effectiveness and efficiency studies of informal and formal care technologies

Technology

Target Setting

Hospital care

Informal care at home

Residential long-term care

Formal care at home

ICU care

Cross sectoral care

Day-care centre care

Education

Palliative inpatient care

N.A.

Undefined

ICT

42

28

10

22

16

3

3

9

0

3

15

Robot

5

22

46

2

1

0

3

2

0

2

23

Sensor

12

26

16

2

6

0

0

0

1

0

21

Multiple Technologies

15

19

12

7

1

0

0

6

0

9

15

EHR/EMR

33

2

10

1

4

3

0

3

0

0

1

Monitoring

12

23

6

2

3

0

0

0

1

0

5

Assistive Device

12

8

3

6

1

0

0

0

0

0

9

E-Learning

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

38

0

0

0

HIS

22

0

6

1

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

Educational Technology

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

23

0

0

0

AAL

0

11

4

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Decision Support

9

3

3

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

Virtual Reality

4

0

2

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

Tracking

3

4

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

Serious Games

0

0

3

0

0

0

0

4

0

0

1

PMR

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

169

147

122

48

37

6

6

90

2

15

91