Abstract
Care robots represent an opportunity for the health domain. The use of these devices has important implications. They can be used in surgical operating rooms in important and delicate clinical interventions, in motion, in training-and-simulation, and cognitive and rehabilitation processes. They are involved in continuous processes of evolution in technology and clinical practice. Therefore, the introduction into routine clinical practice is difficult because this needs the stability and the standardization of processes. The agreement tools, in this case, are of primary importance for the clinical acceptance and introduction. The opinion focuses on the Consensus Conference tool and: (a) highlights its potential in the field; (b) explores the state of use; (c) detects the peculiarities and problems (d) expresses ideas on how improve its diffusion.
Highlights
The Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies of the European Parliament identified the most interesting applications of the care robots (CR)s [1] divided into four groups: Robotic surgery Care and socially assistive robots Rehabilitation systems Training for health and care workersPublisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.1.1
Tackling the issue of acceptance into the clinical routine is a hot and current issue, with several implications of various fields, such as ethics, safety, cybersecurity, laws, and policy. It is a multidimensional problem in the health domain with several variables
An approach in this area certainly starts from evidence-based medicine (EBM) and must use agreement tools
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