title: Home is where the medical device is.
abstract: For a number of reasons, consumers are becoming less willing to rely solely on physicians and other health professionals for medical care. As these consumers swell the ranks of the self-care movement, they provide a growing market for a wide variety of home-use medical devices--everything from blood pressure monitors to cancer screening kits. These products can be valuable tools in self-care, but their use by laymen is not without limits.
mesh_terms: D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006801:Humans; D012648:Self Care / Q000295:instrumentation*