Safer and more efficient vital signs monitoring protocols to identify the deteriorating patients in the general hospital ward: an observational study by Jim Briggs, Ina Kostakis, Paul Meredith, Chiara Dall’ora, Julie Darbyshire, Stephen Gerry, Peter Griffiths, Jo Hope, Jeremy Jones, Caroline Kovacs, Rob Lawrence, David Prytherch, Peter Watkinson, Oliver Redfern

“…Data sets included information on: patient demographics; vital sign observations; admission-specific data including admission specialty, whether the patient died, had a cardiac arrest or was transferred to ICU; information on treatment such as visit to operating theatre, receiving blood transfusions or chemotherapy. Data were extracted by each trust’s data team and pseudonymised prior to transfer to the research team. …”
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