Erratum to "The Quality of Interactions Schedule (QuIS) and person-centred care in acute hospitals: concurrent validity" [International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, Volume 1, November 2019, 100001].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.

How long do nursing staff take to measure and record patients' vital signs observations in hospital? A time-and-motion study.

Introduction: Monitoring vital signs in hospital is an important part of safe patient care. However, there are no robust estimates of the workload it generates for nursing staff. This makes it difficult to plan adequate staffing to ensure current monitoring protocols can be delivered.

The Quality of Interactions Schedule (QuIS) and person-centred care: Concurrent validity in acute hospital settings.

Background: There is a lack of consensus on how the practices of health care workers may be assessed and measured in relation to compassion. The Quality of Interactions Schedule (QuIS) is a promising measure that uses independent observers to assess the quality of social interactions between staff and patients in a healthcare context. Further understanding of the relationship between QuIS and constructs such as person-centred care would be helpful to guide its future use in health research.

Development and validation of a methodology to measure the time taken by hospital nurses to make vital signs observations.

Background: Several time and motion studies have sought to quantify the nursing work involved in observing patients' vital signs. However, none of these studies offered a validated methodology that can be replicated. This is reflected in the high variation between these studies in the mean times for measuring and recording observations.

What is the nursing time and workload involved in taking and recording patients' vital signs? A systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To synthesise evidence regarding the time nurses take to monitor and record vital signs observations and to calculate early warning scores.

Background: While the importance of vital signs' monitoring is increasingly highlighted as a fundamental means of maintaining patient safety and avoiding patient deterioration, the time and associated workload involved in vital signs activities for nurses are currently unknown.

Design: Systematic review.

Older people's experiences in acute care settings: Systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies.

Background: There is no recent synthesis of primary research studies into older people's experiences of hospital care.

Objective: To synthesise qualitative research findings into older people's experiences of acute health care.

Design: Systematic procedures for study selection and data extraction and analysis.

Impact of using data from electronic protocols in nursing performance management: A qualitative interview study.

Aim: To explore the impact of using electronic data in performance management to improve nursing compliance with a protocol.

Background: Electronic data are increasingly used to monitor protocol compliance but little is known about the impact on nurses' practice in hospital wards.

Method: Seventeen acute hospital nursing staff participated in semi-structured interviews about compliance with an early warning score (EWS) protocol delivered by a bedside electronic handheld device.

A fundamental conflict of care: Nurses' accounts of balancing patients' sleep with taking vital sign observations at night.

Aims And Objectives: To explore why adherence to vital sign observations scheduled by an early warning score protocol reduces at night.

Background: Regular vital sign observations can reduce avoidable deterioration in hospital. early warning score protocols set the frequency of these observations by the severity of a patient's condition.