Objective
Skin injuries seen on patients who suffer diabetics or similar physiological orneuropathical problems are a major clinical problem, resulting in enormous costs in health care. These problems usually occur on the interface of patient and product and are caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Extrinsic factors are related with pressure, shear forces, temperatures and humidity. Most of these skin injuries are seen at sites of high forces. Since information is needed about the local distribution to study the aetiology of skin injuries, it is important to have a measuring system which not only measures the pressure distribution, but also the shear forces at the interface between body and contact surface, as is the aim of the project.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineendocrinologydiabetes
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
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Call for proposal
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EAW - Exploratory awardsCoordinator
OLEN
Belgium