title: Is redundancy in vital signs monitoring useful?
abstract: During an ongoing study of wireless vital signs monitoring of post-triage patients with SMART [1] in the waiting area of the emergency department (ED) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, we observed that redundancy in vital signs monitoring can be advantageous.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Dorothy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Curtis
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Esteban
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pino
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Greenes
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guttag
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stair
authors.forename: Lucila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ohno-Machado
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010092:Oximetry; D013613:Tachycardia, Ectopic Junctional / Q000175:diagnosis; D013686:Telemetry