Sentence examples for monitored area of from inspiring English sources

A few of the differences were unexpected, in particular the fact that fewer ECGs were ordered in the monitored area of the ED.

Data not depicted in the figures shows that investigations were influenced by the patient's geographic location in the ED, with more investigations ordered in the monitored area of the ED: complete blood count: 99.2% vs. 67.31%, P <0.0001; electrolytes: 99.4% vs. 64.4%, P <0.0001; blood urea nitrogen: 99.2% vs. 66.4%, P <0.0001; venous or arterial blood gas: 6.6% vs. 1.0%, P = 0.03).

We found that high acuity patients were triaged to the non-monitored area of the ED more often when they presented during crowded conditions.

We speculate that more D-dimers were ordered in the non-monitored area of the ED because it is used more as a "rule-out" test.

Overall, ED crowding led to more high-acuity patients being triaged to the non-monitored area of our ED, with fewer investigations performed.

The mean time to physician initial assessment was significantly longer in the non-monitored area of the ED than in the monitored area (Figure 3b).

More patients were triaged to the non-monitored area of the ED during ED crowding (65/260 (25.0%) vs. 39/240 (16.3%) when not crowded, P = 0.02).

Overall, when triaged to the non-monitored area of the ED, 44/396 (11.1%) patients returned, whereas in the monitored area 9/104 (8.7%) patients returned, P = 0.46.

The differences in investigations and imaging tests ordered for these patients is potentially based on the physician's perception of lower acuity of presentation because the patient is in the non-monitored area of the ED.

In this pilot study, we found that during crowded conditions, high acuity patients presenting with chest pain or shortness of breath had a higher rate of triage to the non-monitored area of the ED, longer times to physician initial assessment, and an associated lower rate of investigations.

We found that patients who presented with a chief complaint of chest pain or shortness of breath and were assigned a CTAS score of 2 were triaged to the non-monitored area of the ED significantly more often when the ED was crowded (25.0% vs. 16.3%, P = 0.02) (Figure 2). Figure 2 Proportion of patients triaged to the non-monitored area during crowded and non-crowded conditions (n = 500).