Caregivers find remote monitoring during COVID-19 pandemic an unexpected patient safety benefit

Medical Xpress February 25, 2022
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

In an opinion article appearing online Feb. 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, authors from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University write about the unexpected patient safety benefit resulting from remote monitoring of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Peter Pronovost, MD, Ph.D., Melissa Cole, MSN, and Robert Hughes, DO, discuss that although COVID-19 placed excessive psychological and moral stress and work demands on patients, clinicians, health care organizations and society, the pandemic also advanced patient safety in an unexpected way.

Prior to the pandemic, routine monitoring of patients with continuous pulse oximetry and heart rate devices was dependent on the patient’s location within a hospital, usually the intensive care unit (ICU). Pulse oximeters are small electronic...

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