UnitEscalationNotificationsMetric definitionsDanger zone

Unit details

Organisation

Unit

Beds

Time zoneUTC+00:00UTC+01:00UTC-05:00

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Handover

Morning handover

Evening handover

Require a signature at handoverThe outgoing clinician signs the patient listInclude overnight observationsAttaches the last 12 hours of traces

Thresholds

Oxygen saturation belowSustained for the window below.

Heart rate above

Systolic pressure above

Window10 minutes15 minutes30 minutes

Who is alerted

Page the registrarImmediately when a threshold is breachedNotify the nurse in chargeAt the same timeEscalate to the consultantIf unacknowledged after 15 minutesLog every escalationWritten to the unit audit record

Thresholds here change who is alerted. They do not change any clinical policy.

Notify me when

A vital breaches a thresholdAny patient on this unitAn abnormal result returnsFor my patients onlyA discharge is blockedOver two hoursStock falls below reorderWard 4 store

Quiet hours

From

To

Always allow critical alertsEscalations ignore quiet hours

Critical alerts cannot be silenced.

How each number is calculatedthese appear as tooltips throughout the dashboard

Patients in clinicPatients physically present, including treatment rooms and bays.

Median waitMedian minutes from check in to being called. Lower is better.

Bed occupancyOccupied beds as a share of the beds open on this unit.

Average stayMean length of stay in days for patients discharged in the period.

Did not attendBooked appointments the patient did not attend, as a share of all booked.

30 day readmissionPatients readmitted within 30 days of discharge.

Danger zone

Closing a unit removes it from the ward list and stops all monitoring alerts for its beds. Patient records are retained and are not deleted.

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