Is redundancy in vital signs monitoring useful?
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.
Curtis
Dorothy
D
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Bailey
Jacob
J
Pino
Esteban
E
Shih
Eugene
E
Greenes
Robert
R
Guttag
John
J
Stair
Thomas
T
Ohno-Machado
Lucila
L
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