Sökning: "vital signs"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 71 avhandlingar innehållade orden vital signs.
1. Documentation of Vital Signs in Electronic Health Records : A Patient Safety Issue
Sammanfattning : Background and aim: Hospitals in the developed world are increasingly adopting digital systems such as electronic health records (EHRs) for all kinds of documentation. This move means that traditional paper case notes and nursing records are often documented in EHRs. LÄS MER
2. Health Care Professionals’ Views of Smart Glasses for Vital Signs Monitoring in Complex Care Environments
Sammanfattning : Monitoring patient vital signs is one of many important tasks for health care professionals in intensive care units and anaesthesia departments. Patient status can deteriorate in seconds, hence close surveillance is requisite for safe care. However, monitoring vital signs can be challenging in some situations. LÄS MER
3. In-hospital patient safety - prevention of deterioration and unexpected death by systematic and interprofessional use of early warning scoring
Sammanfattning : Abstract In-hospital patient safety is at times hampered, leaving general ward patients at considerable risk of gradual, even life-threatening, deterioration. In many European clinical settings, inappropriate nursing practice of bedside monitoring and management has recently been addressed as impending to in-hospital patient safety. LÄS MER
4. Counting deaths, accounting for lives : Novel applications of standardised verbal autopsy methods for augmented health systems
Sammanfattning : Half of the world’s deaths and their causes are never recorded by virtue of the under-resourced civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems which limits capacity of health systems to respond to population needs. Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as a pragmatic approach for determining causes of death using standard interviews including signs, symptoms and circumstances of death, conducted with the bereaved family. LÄS MER
5. Experiences of signs and symptoms among men with advanced prostate cancer
Sammanfattning : Background: In the past decade, thanks to improved treatment options, many men with metastatic prostate cancer now survive longer than they would have before. The PSA value is often followed during the entire disease trajectory as a sign, but in late phases, symptom burden, quality of life (QoL), and/or psycho-social factors are assigned more importance in treatment decisions and evaluations. LÄS MER