Table 2.

Description of observed shifts.

	Total	Intermittent monitoring	Continuous monitoring
Number of individual patients*	209	93	121
Number of shifts	86	32	65
-Day	34 (39.5%)	12 (37.5%)	26 (40.0%)
-Evening	36 (41.9%)	14 (43.8%)	27 (41.5%)
-Night	16 (18.6%)	6 (18.8%)	12 (18.5%)
Number of observed patient rooms	519	172	347
Nurse-to-patient ratio total
−1:1	167 (32.2%)	27 (15.7%)	140 (40.3%)
−1:2	173 (33.3%)	68 (39.5%)	105 (30.3%)
−1:3	30 (5.8%)	23 (13.4%)	7 (2.0%)
−1:4	4 (0.8%)	4 (2.3%)	0 (0.0%)
-unknown	145 (27.9%)	50 (29.1%)	95 (27.4%)

^⁎Five patients were counted in the intermittent and continuous monitoring period at different time point.