Development and Comparative Performance of Physiologic Monitoring Strategies in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Accurate and timely documentation of vital signs affects all aspects of triage, diagnosis, and management. The adequacy of current patient monitoring practices and the potential to improve on them are poorly understood.

Objective

To develop measures of fit between documented and actual patient vital signs throughout the visit, as determined from continuous physiologic monitoring, and to compare the performance of actual practice with alternative patient monitoring strategies.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study evaluated 25 751 adult visits to continuously monitored emergency department (ED) beds between August 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021. A series of monitoring strategies for the documentation of vital signs (heart rate [HR], re

SUBMITTER: Kim D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9520367 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature