Observation vs. admission: The fine points of the doctor’s chart A proposed rule gives certain Medicare beneficiaries the right to appeal a hospital’s classification of their stay.

Recording observations on paper charts is fraught with challenges, and electronic charting systems could make it easier to pick up and act on patient deterioration. Timely observations have been ...

Observation charts that are based on drawn dots and an integrated colour-based scoring system result in fewer recording errors, according to an Australian study. Researchers from the University of ...

A nurse has received a one-year caution from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after wrongly recording the health of a dying patient on an observation chart. Julie McVeigh, from Dromore, was ...

A nurse who incorrectly calculated a terminally-ill patient’s health on an observation chart in a Belfast hospital faces disciplinary action by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

OK, so any nurse reading this will probably relate, but we are so used to observing our patients/residents that we tend to "over observe" when not at work. MCKNIGHT’S LONG-TERM CARE NEWS ...

A Rhode Island Hospital nurse leads a study into measuring pain in ... "We picked this one because of the ventilator component," Linde said of the pain observation chart that was developed in ...

Handwritten medical observation charts could become a thing of the past in UK hospitals with the development of an iPad-based patient monitoring system. Developed in Oxford hospitals, the iPad ...