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Well no shit—how can non-users engage in high rates of symptom monitoring if they don’t have symptom monitors?
"Symptoms monitoring" refers to the conscious state of paying attention to your symptoms, not using devices to monitor your vitals.
There is no "symptom monitoring" device anyway. A "symptom" is something a patient reports, it's not generally quantifiable using sensors. There's no sensor that will measure if your chest hurts or if you feel nauseous, you have to tell your doctor that you are experiencing these things.
But having a constant personal feed of vital stats can make you pay a lot more attention to those symptoms if it turns into an exercise in paying excess attention to your body. Basically, too much information encourages hypochondria.
Elevated heart rate is a symptom, one that is quantifiable and monitorable.
"Tachycardia" is a sign. "Palpitations" or "heart racing" are symptoms. Signs are the objective things that can be measured and recorded as hard data. Symptoms are what the patient reports feeling that are not measurable. In taking a history and physical, the symptoms tell the physician what signs to look for.