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“If it is accepted that any patient in hospital could deteriorate without prior warning or appropriate treatment, logic dictates that, if technically possible and affordable, all patients who are for active treatment should be continuously monitored.”[1]

According to the report from the 2008 Consensus Conference on the Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems, patient monitoring systems “hold the promise of both detecting and predicting patient…