PATIENT SAFETY AND ALERTING SYSTEM

摘要

A patient safety alerting system and methods for providing enhanced patient safety using a patient alerting system are provided. An illustrative patient safety alerting system comprises an output device (10) comprising a set of indicators (20), each indicator displaying one of a plurality of indicator states, each of the indicator states indicating a level of compliance with patient safety procedures; a set of status lists, each status list corresponding to its respective indicator, wherein the displayed indicator state of the respective indicator corresponds to information in the respective status list, each status list provided for containing information regarding the status of a patient for a component or activity; a processing unit (30) operatively connected to the output device (10) for processing changes to the status lists and corresponding indicators; and an input device (50) operatively connected to the processing unit and configured to interface with a user to allow the user to access information in any of the status lists.