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Article: Electronic urine output monitoring: a novel approach for patient care improvement.(CLINICAL CONNECTIONS)
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- Connect: The World of Critical Care Nursing
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Rambam Medical Center is one of the six major hospitals in Israel. It is located in the northern part of the country and serves a population of about 1.25 million people. It is also a level I trauma centre. The Medical Center, being a university hospital, is affiliated to the Technion Institute medical school. Our unit contains eighteen general intensive care beds and the nursing staff comprises of 50 critical care nurses. Our nurse to patient ratio is basically 1:2, but under special conditions (intermediate care patients) the ratio may be reduced to 1:4.
For the last four years, our general ICU patients' data have been managed by a ...