Table 2.

Questions on patients’ experience of being remotely monitored at home with the VitalPatch sensor.

Question			Patient response (n=20)
1	How did you experience wearing the patch in the first week after hospital discharge?a, mean			4.1
2	How did your partner experience the fact that you wore this patch and that your vitals were checked by physicians remotely?a, mean			4.5
3	To what extent did you find it pleasant or not pleasant that physicians were able to see your vital signs once daily?a, mean			4.4
4	To what extent did you find it pleasant or not pleasant that physicians called you each day to ask how you were doing?a, mean			4.5
5	Nothing was visible on this mobile phone you had in proximity. Would you have preferred to see any data on this mobile phone, or you haven't missed this?, n (%)
		Yes		19 (95)
		No		1 (5)
6	Your vitals were checked and you were called once daily. To what extent did this make you feel safer or not?, n (%)
		Yes		15 (75)
		No		5 (25)
7	Imagine you have a choice to go home one day earlier with such a wireless patch sensor in the future. What do you think of this?, n (%)
		Yes		15 (75)
		No		5 (25)
8	What would you need for this, to make yourself comfortable at home? (open answer)			—b
9	To what extent were you aware of wearing this patch?c, mean			4.4
10	To what extent caused this patch irritation on your skin?d, mean			5
11	To what extent stayed this patch in place, even during sweating and showering?a, mean			4.8
12	To what extent was it easy to replace the patch at home?a, mean			4.8

^aOn a scale of 1 (disagree/disagreeable) to 5 (agree/agreeable).

^bThis was an open answer question.

^cOn a scale of 1 to 5, where a higher score indicates less awareness.

^dOn a scale of 1 to 5, where a higher score indicates less skin irritation.