FOBS: Frequency of Observations
A collaborative research project led by the University of Portsmouth and involving the University of Southampton, Oxford University and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Publications
Dall’Ora C, Griffiths P, Hope J, Barker H, Smith GB. What is the nursing time and workload involved in taking and recording patients’ vital signs? A systematic review. J Clin Nurs. 2020; 29: 2053– 2068. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15202
Dall’Ora C, Hope J, Bridges J et al (2020) Development and validation of a methodology to measure the time taken by hospital nurses to make vital signs observations. Nurse Researcher. doi: 10.7748/nr.2020.e1716
Dall'Ora C, Griffiths P, Hope J, Briggs J, Jones J, Gerry S, Redfern O. How long do nursing staff take to measure and record patients’ vital signs observations in hospital? A time-and-motion study. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2021, ISSN 0020-7489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.103921
Kostakis I, Smith GB, Prytherch D, Meredith P, Price C, Chauhan A. Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the patterns of vital signs recording and staff compliance with expected monitoring schedules on general wards. Resuscitation. 2021 Jan 1;158:30-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.11.014
Kostakis I, Smith GB, Prytherch D, Meredith P, Price C, Chauhan A, Mortlock A, Schmidt P, Spice C, Fox L, Fleming D. The performance of the National Early Warning Score and National Early Warning Score 2 in hospitalised patients infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Resuscitation. 2021 Feb 1;159:150-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.10.039
Final report
Briggs J, Kostakis I, Meredith P, Dall'ora C, Darbyshire J, Gerry S, et al. Safer and more efficient vital signs monitoring protocols to identify the deteriorating patients in the general hospital ward: an observational study. Health Soc Care Deliv Res 2024;12(6) . https://doi.org/10.3310/HYTR4612