Table 7 Number of studies by technology category and selected study design
Technology | Design | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Experimental n.c. | Case Study | Qualitative | Cross-sectional | Mixed Methods | Quasi-experiment | RCT | Systematic Review | Meta-analysis | |
ICT | 26 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 0 |
Robot | 43 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
Sensor | 59 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Multiple Technologies | 7 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 0 |
EHR/EMR | 4 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Monitoring | 28 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Assistive Device | 12 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
E-Learning | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
HIS | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Educational Technology | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
AAL | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Decision Support | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Virtual Reality | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tracking | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Serious Games | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
PMR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 207 | 79 | 71 | 60 | 95 | 50 | 34 | 56 | 8 |