CHICAGO, June 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- At the International Conference on Opioids (ICOO), which took place in Boston June 5-7, 2016, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) presented a poster on the survey of nurses it conducted. The survey's objective was to identify:
The survey results indicated key practices and areas of focus to improve standards for continuous patient monitoring:
Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, PPAHS) said he hoped that the survey's findings would prompt future research into what clinicians may need to increase the use of continuous electronic monitoring. In particular, he noted that need to broaden the survey to include more nurses and other clinicians, and to refine and add survey questions which may further understanding.
To view a pdf of the poster, please click here.
About Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety
Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is a non-profit 501(c)(3) whose mission is to promote safer clinical practices and standards for patients through collaboration among healthcare experts, professionals, scientific researchers, and others, in order to improve health care delivery. For more information, please go to www.ppahs.org.
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