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Hospital Corridor

Hospital care is complex.
Clinical Intelligence can address this complexity.

Woman & Doctor

While patient acuity is rising, medical staffing is not. This limits clinical attention for patients, increases provider burnout.

Clinical outcomes during nights and weekends are consistently worse than those during the daytime during weekdays.

Exposing critically ill patients to high workload/staffing ratios is associated with a substantial reduction in the odds of survival.

Nurses' vigilance at the bedside is essential to their ability to ensure patient safety.

Hospital Bed

Fall risk must be carefully balanced with the importance of patient mobility.

More than one-third of in-hospital falls result in injury, including serious injuries such as fractures and head trauma.

Immobility contributes to poor patient outcomes, including increased risk of injurious falls.

Current fall prevention efforts reflect a troubling underlying assumption that keeping patients from moving can stop such falls.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do not reimburse hospitals for additional costs associated with patient falls.

Delirium is an ever present issue that waxes and wanes — current intermittent monitoring can miss these cycles.

Delirium is a form of acute brain failure that affects up to 80% of all ICU patients and causes avoidable morbidity and mortality.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement found each prevented case of delirium leads to a financial benefit of $11,000.

Current diagnostic methods are intermittent and do not use objective data.

Woman Sleeping

Sleep is medicine. Disruptions to sleep are everywhere in the hospital.

Quiet time may be beneficial to the patient as it creates a restorative period — that is, a period when sound is at a level that is less likely to cause arousal.

Hospital noise levels in patient rooms are markedly higher than recommended levels and associated with clinically significant sleep loss among hospitalized patients.

Disrupted sleep in the hospital is a “terrible way to start recovery,” according to Dr. Peter Ubel, a physician with Duke University.