Use of the BACtrack Skyn alcohol biosensor: Practical applications for data collection and analysis.
Aims: Alcohol biosensors, including the BACtrack Skyn, provide an objective and passive method of continuously assessing alcohol consumption in the natural environment. Despite the many strengths of the Skyn, six key challenges in the collection and processing of data include (1) identifying consume...
| Publicado en: | Addiction Vol. 118; no. 8; pp. 1586 - 1596 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2023
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