Wireless patient monitoring and Efficacy Safety Score in postoperative treatment at the ward: evaluation of time consumption and usability.

To evaluate objective time consumption and how nurses perceived introducing wireless patient monitoring (WPM) and a validated score on patient quality and safety, the Efficacy Safety Score (ESS), at a mixed surgery ward. After fulfilling a randomised controlled trial combining the ESS and WPM, we addressed time consumption and conducted a questionnaire survey among nurses who participated in the study. The questionnaire appraised the nurses' evaluation of introducing these tools for postoperative management.

Postoperative quality and safety using Efficacy Safety Score (ESS) and a wireless patient monitoring system at the ward: A randomised controlled study.

Background: Postoperative pain, side-effects and time to mobilisation are indicators for the quality of postoperative recovery. The aim of this randomised controlled study was to investigate if efficacy safety score (ESS) combined with a wireless patient monitoring system would improve these clinical outcomes for patients at a general surgical ward.

Methods: The trial included 195 patients randomised to a standard care group (SC-Group) or intervention group (INT-Group) receiving continuous wireless monitoring of vital signs combined with ESS during the first 24 postoperative hours.

Influence of a New "Call-Out Algorithm" for Management of Postoperative Pain and Its Side Effects on Length of Stay in Hospital: A Two-Centre Prospective Randomized Trial.

Background: We recently introduced the efficacy safety score (ESS) a new "call-out algorithm" for management of postoperative pain and side effects. In this study, we report the influence of ESS recorded hourly during the first 8 hours after surgery on the mobility degree, postoperative nonsurgical complications, and length of hospital stay (LOS).

Methods: We randomized 1152 surgical patients into three groups for postoperative observation: (1) ESS group ( = 409), (2) Verbal Numeric Rate Scale (VNRS) for pain group ( = 417), and (3) an ordinary qualitative observation (Control) group ( = 326).

Development and validation of the Efficacy Safety Score (ESS), a novel tool for postoperative patient management.

Background: Several reports have shown that postoperative monitoring of general safety and quality issues, including pain treatment, after discharge from recovery is often non-systematic and inadequate. We suggest a new score with assessment of key recovery parameters, as a supportive tool for postoperative care and a call-out algorithm for need of extra help. The aim of this investigation was to validate the score.