Table 3.
Impact of Rescheduling Vital Sign Monitoringa and Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Injectionsb on Patients’ Perception of Sleep in the Hospital vs. at Home
| Pre-intervention cohort (N = 149) Proportion responding (# respondents/total) |
Post-intervention cohort (N = 99) Proportion responding (# respondents/total) |
p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longer sleep latency | All | 39% (56/143) | 25% (24/97) | 0.02 |
| Telemetry | 51% (28/55) | 22% (10/45) | 0.003 | |
| Non-telemetry | 32% (28/87) | 27% (14/52) | NS | |
| More nocturnal disruptions | All | 46% (67/147) | 32% (31/97) | 0.034 |
| Telemetry | 62% (34/55) | 27% (12/44) | <0.001 | |
| Non-telemetry | 36% (33/91) | 36% (19/53) | NS | |
| Worse sleep | All | 44% (58/131) | 39% (39/99) | NS |
| Telemetry | 51% (26/51) | 40% (18/45) | NS | |
| Non-telemetry | 39% (31/79) | 39% (21/54) | NS | |
aBlood pressure measurement was rescheduled to occur 2 h later at 6 am, instead of 4 am. bVenous thromboembolism prophylaxis was simplified to a single enoxaparin injection at 9 am vs. TID injections of heparin at 6 am, 2 pm, and 10 pm.