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Gathering Vital-Sign Data: Nurse vs. Computer

Authors: Steven Ringer, M.D. Director of New Born Services, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Steven M. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Professor of Quality and Systems Management University of South Alabama

Published:Computertalk for Homecare Providers volume 1 Spring 1996 page 10-11

Significance:This paper investigates the use of nurses and other caregivers to observe and record data. It is shown that a computer can more accurately and more efficiently perform the observing and recording. It addition the computer can analysis the data in real-time and present the results to the caregiver in the form of a quality control chart with decision making limits.

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