Clinical Requirements of Future Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the intensive care unit (ICU), continuous patient monitoring is essential to detect critical changes in patients' health statuses and to guide therapy. The implementation of digital health technologies for patient monitoring may further improve patient safety. However, most monitoring devices today are still based on technologies from the 1970s.

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate statements by ICU staff on the current patient monitoring systems and their expectations for future technological developments in order to investigate clinical requirements and barriers to the implementation of future patient monitoring.

Methods

This prospective study was conducted at three intensive care units of a German university hospital. Guideline-based interv

SUBMITTER: Poncette AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658223 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature