Achieving best practice in routine observation of hospital patients.
This article reviews the evidence supporting best practice when undertaking patient observations in a district general hospital. Correct monitoring of the patients' progress is essential in the detection of adverse events and can potentially prevent admission to intensive care or high dependency units.
Stevenson
Tracey
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Dorset County Hospital, West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust.
D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D001831:Body Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000451:nursing*; D010092:Oximetry; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests