Does pattern recognition software using the Bahr monitor improve the sensitivity, specificity, and concordance of ambulatory skin conductance monitoring of hot flushes?

Abstract

Pattern recognition can identify flushes more reliably by detecting the shape of physiological signals rather than by relying solely on the amplitude of their signals (as used in conventional criteria). With application of the revised method, ambulatory sternal skin conductance monitoring detects changes after a CBT intervention in well women but not in breast cancer survivors.