title: Reliability of patient monitoring apparatus.
abstract: Assessment of a patient monitoring system used in a general medical intensive care ward showed that the blood pressure subsystem was unreliable. The method used in this study is discussed in relation to the clinical requirements of patient monitoring apparatus.
mesh_terms: D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D001831:Body Temperature; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011674:Pulse; D012119:Respiration