Workload involved in vital signs-based monitoring & responding to deteriorating patients: A single site experience from a regional New Zealand hospital.

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Workload involved in vital signs-based monitoring & responding to deteriorating patients: A single site experience from a regional New Zealand hospital.

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ObjectiveThis study aimed to quantify the workload involved in patient monitoring by vital signs and early warning scores (EWS), and the time spent by a rapid response team locally known as the Patient-at-Risk (PaR) team in responding to deteriorating patients.MethodsThe workload involved in the measurement and the documentation of vital signs and EWS was quantified by time and motion study using electronic stopwatch application in 167 complete sets of vital signs observations taken by nursin...

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2022-10

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Ullah, Ehsan / Albrett, Jonathan / Khan, Orooj / Matthews, Claudia / Perry, Ian / GholamHosseini, Hamid / Lu, Jun

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/62834

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Early warning score / Escalation of care / Patient deterioration / Patient monitoring / Rapid response system / Vital signs / Workload / Clinical Research / 7 Management of diseases and conditions / 7.3 Management and decision making

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