Case Study: Continuous Monitoring of Patient Vital Signs to Reduce 'Failure-to-Rescue' Events.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in Baltimore, MD, and part of the Johns Hopkins University. Founded in 1889, it is a large global health enterprise that operates six academic and community hospitals, four suburban healthcare and surgery centers, and 39 primary and specialty care outpatient sites. Zayed 11 East, the focal point of the initiative described here, is a 32-bed surgical unit that cares for patients with orthopedic/spine, trauma, general surgery, and neurological conditions and who receive opioids for pain management following surgical procedures.