Between data and touch: how nurses and patients negotiate the human boundary under data-driven surveillance in chronic care
Qianli Zhu, Weizhen Hu, Laite Chen · 2026
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Qianli Zhu, Weizhen Hu, and Laite Chen study in 2026 how live data feeds change the bond between nurses and long-term care patients. They spoke with 12 nurses and 15 patients with high blood pressure or type 2 diabetes at one large Chinese hospital. The unit had run round-the-clock body tracking for six months.
Nurses said they now spend much of their day sorting machine alerts from what a patient truly needs. Patients, in turn, watched their own numbers and policed their own habits. Both groups still guarded a human space of warmth and judgment that no feed can fill, and they treated that space as theirs to defend, not a leftover.
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| CREATOR | Qianli Zhu, Weizhen Hu, Laite Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40360 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |