Radical advances in patient communications.
The development of patient communications has been traced from the simple bell push through slow speed multiplexed systems to high speed data links capable of providing all the needs to the hospitals of today leaving capacity for the services likely to be required in the future.
D003142:Communication; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D006113:United Kingdom