HealthLeaders Media April 22, 2024
Through automation, Ardent Health has increased inpatient vital sign collection from four times per day to 1,440 times per day.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Continuous vital sign collection through automation improves the ability to identify patients who are deteriorating.
– At Ardent Health, automating the collection of vital signs has reduced mortality, decreased length of stay, and increased patient transfers to the ICU.
– Improving detection of deteriorating patients decreases clinician burnout because it addresses the fear of patients deteriorating on a clinician’s watch.
Automating the collection of inpatient vital signs has improved the ability to identify patients who are deteriorating at Ardent Health.
Vital signs are critical indicators of a patient’s condition in the inpatient setting. Manual collection of vital...
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