A randomised controlled trial of the effect of continuous electronic physiological monitoring on the adverse event rate in high risk medical and surgical patients

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1031-1039

  Watkinson, P J ^a   Barber, V S ^a   Price, J D ^a   Hann, A ^a   Tarassenko, L ^b   Young, J Duncan ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAL SIGN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION; RISK FACTORS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750060710     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04818.x     Document Type: Article

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