Hospital alert system identifies at-risk patients, lowers mortality, study finds

(By Erica Carbajal for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Patients who were monitored with a real-time alert system had a 16 percent lower mortality rate compared to patients who were not monitored, according to research published Nov. 11 in The New England Journal of Medicine.  Continue reading article here…

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