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Collaborative on Vital Signs for the Health and Well-Being of Children and Families

This work builds on the 2015 Institute of Medicine report on Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress. Participants of this collaborative aim to further child and family relevant ...
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Parents’ intuition more likely to predict child’s critical illness than checking vital signs, study finds

Parents should be treated as part of a child’s care team in the hospital, experts have said (Getty/iStock) A new study has found that parent intuition is more likely to predict critical illness than ...
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Rethinking Real-Time Blood Flow As Medicine’s Next Vital Sign

Just four vital signs make up the traditional core of clinical diagnosis: heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature. For decades, and in some cases, hundreds of years, these metrics ...
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Parents’ intuition more likely to predict child’s critical illness than checking vital signs, study finds

A new study has found that parent intuition is more likely to predict critical illness than various vital signs used to measure health. Experts from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, analysed ...