Improving Hospitalized Children's Sleep by Reducing Excessive Overnight Blood Pressure Monitoring.

Background: Although required for healing, sleep is often disrupted during hospitalization. Blood pressure (BP) monitoring can be especially disruptive for pediatric inpatients and has few clinical indications. Our aim in this pilot study was to reduce unnecessary overnight BP monitoring and improve sleep for pediatric inpatients.

Evaluation of the Order SMARTT: An Initiative to Reduce Phlebotomy and Improve Sleep-Friendly Labs on General Medicine Services.

We assessed the effectiveness of a quality improvement project to reduce routine labs in clinically stable patients, while also promoting sleep-friendly lab timing. The electronic health record was modified with an "Order Sleep" shortcut to facilitate sleep-friendly lab draws. A "4 AM Labs" column was added to electronic patient lists to signal which patients had early morning labs ordered.