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Two reasons. First, it's a clinical quality measure that needs to be collected by law. The government mandates that you collect certain data about X% of patient
by Thriptic 9y ago
Two reasons. First, it's a clinical quality measure that needs to be collected by law. The government mandates that you collect certain data about X% of patients you are in contact with and transmit that data to relevant parties or else you will be penalized financially by Medicare.
Also, BP, weight, and temperature are important diagnostic indicators
- casefields 9y agoSomeone didn't read the article. "Checking things like temperature, blood pressure and respiratory rate every four hours on hospitalized patients has been the standard of care since the 1890s, yet scant data indicates that it helps."
- Thriptic 9y agoSomeone didn't read the parent comment. The article talks about re-taking of history and vitals during care transitions, after the patient has been admitted. The parent comment asked about taking those measures during admission / triage and checkups when the healthcare team doesn't have any data yet. Those are two different things.