Discussion
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Current vital signs monitoring technology in the NICU is indispensable but uses wires and cables. The wires may interfere with routine care, cause discomfort to patient, pose risk of infection, and act as a barrier to parent-infant contact. New advances in wearable technology, if properly applied to the NICU context, have the potential to facilitate patient care and provide acquisition of new signals. Thus, the development and testing of such technologies is warranted.This proposed study will build on previous pilot using the ANNEThe study has some limitations. This is an observational study with a convenience sample. However, for the 2 phases proposed, the aim of the study is to explore the feasibility of wireless monitoring technology in the NICU, and therefore its findings could be used as the basis for a future larger study with longer monitoring durations. Another anticipated limitation is the possibility of incomplete data collection. There is a chance that a recruited patient may be discharged or transferred during the study and data collection discontinued prematurely. However, based on average duration of stay of patients in the NICU this should not interfere with sufficient patient data collection.