Predicting lifespan much more accurately is important for the palliative care team and the families they accompany. However, the way physicians estimate survival time has a gap between the real conditions. This is the first study to use a senseless wearable sensor to collect electrocardiograms from hospice care patients and explore the final moments of patients’ lives by analyzing heart rate variability.
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