Incidence, staff awareness and mortality of patients at risk on general wards.
Fuhrmann L, Lippert A, Perner A, et al. Incidence, staff awareness and mortality of patients at risk on general wards. Resuscitation. 2008;77(3):325-30. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.01.009.
One in five patients on general medicine wards had abnormal vital signs when they were measured randomly by study investigators. However, nurses were frequently unaware of the abnormal values.
Fuhrmann L, Lippert A, Perner A, et al. Incidence, staff awareness and mortality of patients at risk on general wards. Resuscitation. 2008;77(3):325-30. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.01.009.