Is telemetry overused? Is it as helpful as thought?

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Role of telemetry monitoring in the non-intensive care unit

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Continuous Electrocardiographic Monitoring and Cardiac Arrest Outcomes in 8,932 Telemetry Ward Patients

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Are monitored telemetry beds necessary for patients with nontraumatic chest pain and normal or nonspecific electrocardiograms?

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Is Telemetry Monitoring Necessary in Low-Risk Suspected Acute Chest Pain Syndromes?

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Telemetry outside critical care units: Patterns of utilization and influence on management decisions

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Inpatient Telemetry Does Not Need To Be Used in the Management of Older Patients Hospitalized With Chest Pain at Low Risk for In-Hospital Coronary Events and Mortality

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The doctors' challenge: how can we follow guidelines better.

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Space-Proven Medical Monitor: The Total Patient-Care Package

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Is Telemetry Monitoring Necessary in Low-Risk Suspected Acute Chest Pain Syndromes?

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2017 ISHNE-HRS expert consensus statement on ambulatory ECG and external cardiac monitoring/telemetry

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Choosing wisely in pediatric hospital medicine: Five opportunities for improved healthcare value

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Choosing wisely in adult hospital medicine: Five opportunities for improved healthcare value

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The FDA extended warning for intravenous haloperidol and torsades de pointes: How should institutions respond?

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2017 ISHNE-HRS expert consensus statement on ambulatory ECG and external cardiac monitoring/telemetry

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Use of smartphone technology in cardiology

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Use and Outcomes of Telemetry Monitoring on a Medicine Service

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Hospitalist intervention for appropriate use of telemetry reduces length of stay and cost

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Eliminating Inappropriate Telemetry Monitoring

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The Afferent Limb of Rapid Response Systems

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Moving the field forward: detection of epileptiform abnormalities on scalp electroencephalography using deep learning—clinical application perspectives

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Decrease in Inpatient Telemetry Utilization Through a System-Wide Electronic Health Record Change and a Multifaceted Hospitalist Intervention

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Cost-Saving Opportunities with Appropriate Utilization of Cardiac Telemetry

Chong-Yik, R., Bennett, A. L., Milani, R. V., & Morin, D. P. (2018) · The American Journal of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.07.016 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Improvement of in-hospital telemetry monitoring in coronary care units: An intervention study for achieving optimal electrode placement and attachment, hygiene and delivery of critical information to patients

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Reducing Over-Utilization of Cardiac Telemetry with Pop-Ups in an Electronic Medical Record System

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Evaluation of Telemetry Utilization, Policy, and Outcomes in an Inner-City Academic Medical Center

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Non-critical care telemetry and in-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes

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Guideline‐based intervention to reduce telemetry rates in a large tertiary centre

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Combating Alarm Fatigue: The Quest for More Accurate and Safer Clinical Monitoring Equipment

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Inappropriate Telemetry Use Is Increased during the COVID-19 Era

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Improving Value by Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry and Urinary Catheter Utilization in Hospitalized Patients

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Interventions to Decrease Overuse of Cardiac Monitoring (Telemetry) When Transitioning from the Intensive Care Unit to the Regular Nursing Floor

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Routine Continuous Electrocardiographic Monitoring Following Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

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Lessons Learned from Efforts to Reduce Overuse of Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring

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Decreasing Inappropriate Telemetry Use via Nursing-Driven Checklist and Electronic Health Record Order Set

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Telemetry Monitoring: Are Admission Criteria Based on Evidence?

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Empowering nurses and residents to improve telemetry stewardship in the academic care setting

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Telemetry Bed Usage for Patients with Low-risk Chest Pain: Review of the Literature for the Clinician

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Physicians Are Often Incorrect About the Telemetry Status of Their Patients

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Indication‐specific event rates among hospitalized patients undergoing continuous cardiac monitoring

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Reducing telemetry use while improving patient outcomes: University health network experience with the implementation of oximetry-based monitoring system

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Evaluation of Telemetry Utilization on Medical-Surgical Units

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Telemetry Overuse and the Effect of Educational and Electronic Health Record-Based Interventions on an Academic Internal Medicine Ward

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Is Telemetry Monitoring Useful in Patients Admitted With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome?

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Updating telemetry practices to improve the culture of safety

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Preventable In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests― Are We Monitoring the Wrong Organ?

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Telemetry Bed Usage for Patients with Low-Risk Chest Pain: An Updated Review of the Literature for the Clinician

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Who's watching the cardiac monitor? Does it matter?

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Evaluation of a Multifaceted Protocol in Reducing Unnecessary Telemetry Monitoring across a Large Healthcare System

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Incidence of Abnormal Electrocardiograms Which Affected the Changes of Exercise Programs at Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic

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Medication safety in the hospital setting - role and tools for the Swiss hospital pharmacist

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Clinical significance of novel cloud-based telemetry ECG in detecting arrhythmias, reducing hospitalizations and medical cost

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Telemetry – Heartbeat of the system

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Antecedent bradycardia: An opportunity for pre-arrest intervention?

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Methods and techniques for use in telemetry and teleinformation and communications systems – literature studies

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What is the Role of Telemetry in Patients with Pacemakers

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Untangling the Wire: Exploring the Overuse of Continuous Telemetry on Regular Nursing Floors

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Improving Appropriate Telemetry Utilization

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TELEMETRY OVERUSE AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

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Cardiac telemetry 2016: An overview of guidelines and clinical practice

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TELEMETRY: DO YOU HAVE THE HEART NOT TO ORDER IT

Schachter, J. L., & Gopalakrishnan, P. (2019) · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/s0735-1097(19)33642-3

Assessing Telemetry Utilization in Inpatient Care: Establishing and Evaluating the Impact of a Telemetry Admission Protocol

López, M. S., Gonzalez, L. C., Sosa, G. L. L., Gomez, Y. H., Rodriguez-Mier, V., Rodríguez, A. C., Guevárez, D. M. T., & Feliciano-Diaz, G. (2026) · Cureus · doi:10.7759/cureus.113419

Clinical Decision Support Lowers Telemetry Use

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