Background: Clinically stable inpatients may receive potentially unnecessary care, such as overnight vital sign assessment. Nighttime vital signs can disrupt sleep and adversely affect patient satisfaction and contribute to delirium. However, it may be difficult for individual clinicians to determine which patients could safely forego overnight vital signs. Purpose: We developed a predictive algorithm designed [...]

Background: Clinically stable inpatients may receive potentially unnecessary care, such as overnight vital sign assessment. Nighttime vital signs can disrupt sleep and adversely affect patient satisfaction and contribute to delirium. However, it may be difficult for individual clinicians to determine which patients could safely forego overnight vital signs. Purpose: We developed a predictive algorithm designed [...]

Background: Hospitalized patients are often disrupted at night for routine medical care, some of which is unnecessary. These sleep disruptions have implications for patient satisfaction, delirium, mobility, immune status, as well as hospital outcomes such as length of stay and readmissions. Interventions to improve inpatient sleep would benefit from the ability to objectively measure sleep, [...]