Table 1. Patient and event characteristics.

	Pre-intervention	Post-intervention	p-value
Sample size	329	383
Teaching/non-teaching	162/167	148/235
Age (median, range)	78 (34-100)	77 (19-81)	0.901
Gender, female (%)	158 (48%)	208 (54.3%)	0.157
AHA classes of indication for telemetry use
I	179 (54.4%)	176 (46.0%)	0.025
II	105 (31.9%)	162 (42.3%)	0.004
III	45 (13.7%)	45 (11.7%)	0.42
Days on cardiac monitor (mean)	4.03	4.05	0.928
Cardiac monitor used until discharge	300 (93.2%)	351 (91.6%)	0.518
Events on monitor	22 (6.7%)	14 (3.7%)	0.066
Actions taken for monitored event(s)	6 (27.3%)	4 (26.7%)	0.967
Deaths	2	1	0.476