"vigilant monitoring" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means the act of closely and attentively watching or observing something for potential risks, issues, or changes. Example: The hospital's success rate in preventing medication errors is due to their vigilant monitoring of medication doses and patient reactions.
(Today it has declined, probably because of vigilant monitoring and treatment).
But guarding against abuse also requires vigorous competition, informed consumers and vigilant monitoring.
Libya will need even more support — as well as vigilant monitoring and likely frequent goading — in the months ahead.
The F.D.A. — and American consumers — got another warning last week about the need for vigilant monitoring of imported drugs from the developing world, especially from China.
Plausible, initial design criteria must be developed for design and vigilant monitoring approaches must be in place to control safety levels and manage uncertainty.
They say such protections can be ignored or prove insufficient in the absence of vigilant monitoring or explicit guidelines that specify which architectural elements deserve protection.
Meanwhile, the Sept. 11 attacks and weather catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy have underlined the need for ever more vigilant monitoring and technological improvements.
Any prisoner release will first require careful vetting, and then there will have to be vigilant monitoring to ensure that the prisoners don't go back to the battlefield.
There is, after all, nothing like some innocence to undermine decadence, and nothing more grounding on a beach swarming with gay eye candy than a fearless child in need of vigilant monitoring in the surf.
But patients' vigilant monitoring of their daytime blood sugar, food intake, insulin and activity levels is perhaps less exhausting than the worries they face about getting a safe night's sleep.
And, thus far, "vigilant monitoring" seems more concerned about overpaid providers than about underserved patients.ADAM YARMOLINSKYBaltimore, MarylandIndonesian insightSIR Congratulations on producing a survey of Indonesia (July 26th) that fails to mention agriculture.
