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- Barbara G Jones.
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA, USA. bgjones@sentara.com
- Am J Nurs. 2013 Aug 1; 113 (8): 36-44; quiz 46, 45.
OverviewThis article describes the implementation of a nurse-designed, automated system for enhancing patient monitoring on medical-surgical and step-down nursing units. The system, which is not derived from any of the early warning scoring systems described in nursing literature, was developed and put into place at a large tertiary hospital in eastern Virginia and found to substantially reduce out-of-unit codes without increasing nurses' workload.
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