Background: Routine patient care including vital signs checks, lab draws, medication administration, during the night contributes to the already disturbed sleep of inpatients. This study aimed to assess the performance of automated risk scores to stratify the risk of an overnight deterioration to better inform letting low-risk patients sleep and more intensively monitoring and/or intervening [...]

Background: Evidence-based guidelines/protocols for electrolyte replacement that safely encourage oral (PO) and/or intravenous (IV) dosing attain goal levels more successfully than standard care.1-17 PO is generally more comfortable and less dangerous than IV. Between 5/2017-11/2017, Jefferson dosed ~300,000 doses of potassium (K) and magnesium (Mg), with 30% and 19% of doses being PO, respectively. Guiding [...]