Incidence, staff awareness and mortality of patients at risk on general wards.

Lone Fuhrmann; Anne Lippert; Anders Perner; Doris Østergaard

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Incidence, staff awareness and mortality of patients at risk on general wards.

April 16, 2008

Fuhrmann L, Lippert A, Perner A, et al. Resuscitation. 2008;77(3):325-30.

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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.

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