Increasing vigilance on the medical/surgical floor to improve patient safety

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 472-481

  Jacobs, Joshua L ^a   Apatov, Nathaniel ^b   Glei, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Hoana Medical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated early warning system; Automated vigilance; Information technology; Nursing; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BREATHING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; NURSING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RESPIRATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846985239     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.04161.x     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Aiken L., Clarke S., Sloane D., Sochalski J. & Silber J. (2002) Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction. Journal of the American Medical Association 288, 1987-1993.
2. Akridge J. (2005) Patient Monitors Migrate Into the Mainstream. Critical Care Tools Expand Boundaries. Healthcare Purchasing News. Retrieved from http://www.hpnonline.com/inside/July05/ 0507OR.html on 26 November 2005.
3. Bates D.W. & Gawande A.A. (2003) Improving safety with information technology. New England Journal of Medicine 348, 2526-2534.
4. Bland J.M. & Altman D.G. (1986) Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1, 307-310.
5. Buist M., Jarmolowski E., Burton P.R., Bernard S.A., Wasman B.P. & Anderson J. (1999) Recognising clinical instability in hospital patients before cardiac arrest or unplanned admission to intensive care. A pilot study in a tertiary-care hospital. Medical Journal of Australia 17, 22-25.
6. Buist M.D., Moore G.E., Bernard S.A., Waxman B.P., Anderson J.N. & Nguyen T.V. (2002) Effects of a medical emergency team on reduction of incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrests in hospital: preliminary study. British Medical Journal 324, 387-390.
7. Buist M., Bernard S., Nguyen T.V., Moore G. & Anderson J. (2004) Association between clinically abnormal observations and subsequent in-hospital mortality: a prospective study. Resuscitation 62, 137-141.
8. Chambrin M.C. (2001) Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced? Critical Care 5, 184-188.
9. Chambrin M.C., Ravaux P., Calvelo D., Jaborska A., Chopin C. & Boniface B. (1999) Multicentre study of monitoring alarms in the adult intensive care unit (ICU): a descriptive analysis. Intensive Care Medicine 25, 1360-1366.
10. Cummins R.O., Ornato J.P., Thies W.H. & Pepe P.E. (1991) Improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest: the 'chain of survival' concept. A statement for health professionals from the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Subcommittee and the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee, American Heart Association. Circulation 83, 1832-1847.
11. DeVita M.A., Braithwaite R.S., Mahidhara R., Stuart S., Foraida M. & Simmons R.L. (2004) Use of medical emergency team responses to reduce hospital cardiopulmonary arrests. Quality and Safety in Health Care 13, 251-254.
12. Goldhill D.R., Worthington L., Mulcahy A., Tarling M. & Sumner A. (1999) The patient-at-risk team: identifying and managing seriously ill ward patients. Anaesthesia 54, 853-860.
13. Health Grades Inc. (2006) Health Grades Quality Study: Third Annual Report on Patient Safety in American Hospitals. Health Grades, Inc., Golden, CO.
14. Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professionals, National Center for Healthcare Workforce Analysis. (2002) Projected Supply, Demand and Shortage of Registered Nurses: 2000-2020. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
15. Hillman K.M., Bristow P.J., Chey T., Daffurn K., Jacques T., Norman S.L., Bishop G.F. & Simmons G. (2001) Antecedents to hospital deaths. Internal Medicine Journal 31, 343-348.
16. Hodgetts T., Kenward G., Vlackonikolis I., Payne S., Castle N., Crouch R., Ineson N. & Shaikh L. (2002) Incidence, location and reasons for avoidable in-hospital cardiac arrests in a district general hospital. Resuscitation 54, 115-123.
17. Jacobs J.L., Embree P., Glei M., Christensen S. & Sullivan P. (2004) Characterization of a novel heart and respiratory rate sensor. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (IEEE eds), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., San Francisco CA, pp. 2223-2226.
18. Kohn L.T., Corrigan J.M. & Donaldson M.S., eds; Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. (1999) To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academies Press, Washington, DC.
19. Lawless S.T. (1994) Crying wolf: false alarms in a pediatric intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 22, 981-985.
20. Marchetti A., Jacobs J., Young M., Martin J. (2007) 'Costs and benefits of a new early-alert surveillance system for hospital inpatients'. Current medical research and opinion. 23(1), 9-16.
21. Meredith C. & Edworthy J. (1995) Are there too many alarms in the intensive care unit? An overview of the problems. Journal of Advanced Nursing 21, 15-20.
22. Rosenfeld B.A., Dorman, T., Breslow M.J., Pronovost P., Jenckes M., Zhang N., Anderson G. & Rubin H. (2000) Intensive care unit telemedicine: Alternate paradigm for providing continuous intensivist care. Critical Care Medicine 28, 3925-3931.
23. Schoneboom B. & Cheung K. (2002) Passive Physiological Monitoring for MEDEVAC Applications. 15th Annual Pacific Nursing Research Conference. University of Hawaii School of Nursing & Dental Hygiene, Honolulu, HI.
24. Tsien C.L. & Fackler J.C. (1997) Poor prognosis for existing monitors in the intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine 25, 614-619.
25. Young M., Gooder V., McBride K., James B. & Fisher E. (2003) Inpatient transfers to the intensive care unit: delays are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Journal of General Internal Medicine 18, 77-83.