Background Vital signs, ie respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, pulse, blood pressure and
temperature, are regarded as an essential part of monitoring hospitalized patients. Changes …

Background and Purpose: This scientific statement provides an interprofessional,
comprehensive review of evidence and recommendations for indications, duration, and …

Article-at-a-Glance Background The growing number of monitoring devices, combined with
suboptimal patient monitoring and alarm management strategies, has increased “alarm …

BACKGROUND: Patients with cardiac arrests or who die in general wards have often
received delayed or inadequate care. We investigated whether the medical emergency team …

When the first edition of Clinical Decision Support Systems was published in 1999, I began
the preface with the statement,“We are at the beginning of a new era in the application of …

Background: Some preventable deaths in hospitalized patients are due to unrecognized
deterioration. There are no publications of studies that have instituted routine patient …

Background Patients suffering in-hospital cardiac arrest often show signs of physiological
deterioration before the event. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of …

Background Timely identification of patients at a high risk of clinical deterioration is key to
prioritizing care, allocating resources effectively, and preventing adverse outcomes. Vital …

Background: Patients with unexpected in-hospital cardiac arrest often have an abnormal
clinical observation prior to the arrest. Previous studies have suggested that a medical …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Clear and detectable signs of deterioration have been
shown to be present in many patients multiple hours before undergoing a serious life …