Economic Impact

An evaluation of the cost savings attributable to implementing a continuous monitoring system in a 316-bed medical-surgical unit revealed the average net benefit ranged from $224 to $710 per patient per year. The cost savings were attributed to decreases in length of hospital stay and ICU length of stay for patients transferred from general care floors.([FOOTNOTE=Slight, S. P., Franz, C., Olugbile, M., Brown, H. V., Bates, D. W., & Zimlichman, E. The return on investment of implementing a continuous monitoring system in general medical-surgical units. Crit Care Med. 2014;42(8):1862-1868.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])