Background: Failure to promptly recognize clinically deteriorating patients in the hospital leads to delays in critical interventions and worse health outcomes. Current standard practice in patient monitoring on most medical-surgical wards involves vital sign assessment at discrete time points, typically every four to eight hours. More frequent or continuous vital sign monitoring has historically been […]

Case Presentation: A 60‐year‐old man with a medical history significant for chronic HCV infection with treatment failure complicated by cirrhosis (Child–Pugh class B) presented to our institution with a 3‐week history of nausea, nonbilious, nonbloody vomiting, and poor oral intake. His symptoms began the day after completing a contrasted CT study of the liver. On […]

Background: Bed-rest is considered essential to recovery. Functional decline in older patients is an often-overlooked riskfactor during hospitalizations. Older patients have higher 30-day readmission rates, more complications,and longer lengths of stay. Increasing the amount of walking in the hospital has been identified as a potentialsolution, with 900 steps per day identified as a target to […]