PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alexander Hunter
AU  - Todd Leckie
AU  - Daniel Fitzpatrick
AU  - Anacarolina Goncalves
AU  - Alan Richardson
AU  - Luke Hodgson
TI  - Digitally enhanced recovery from severe COVID-19: a new frontier?
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2020-0271
DP  - 2021 May 04
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - fhj.2020-0271
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2021/05/03/fhj.2020-0271.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2021/05/03/fhj.2020-0271.full
AB  - During the first wave of intensive care unit admissions with COVID-19, in response to the constraints of social distancing we introduced a new digitally enabled critical care rehabilitation pathway. Using smartwatch technology, this pathway rapidly enabled our multidisciplinary team to observe the recovery of a COVID-19 cohort across eight NHS acute hospitals across the south of England. This represents one of the geographically largest smartwatch studies of its kind.