A controlled trial of electronic automated advisory vital signs monitoring in general hospital wards.

Objectives: Deteriorating ward patients are at increased risk. Electronic automated advisory vital signs monitors may help identify such patients and improve their outcomes.

Setting: A total of 349 beds, in 12 general wards in ten hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

Impact of protocol watch on compliance with the surviving sepsis campaign.

Purpose: Clinical decision support systems are intended to improve patients' care and outcomes, particularly when such systems are present at the point of care. Protocol Watch was developed as a bedside clinical decision support system to improve clinicians' adherence to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines. This pre/post-intervention pilot study was done to evaluate the effect of Protocol Watch on compliance with 5 guidelines from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.