This collection contains 51 articles on hourly rounding/hourly physiologic monitoring of acute care patients by nurses. It does not include articles that were specific to inpatient rehab, inpatient psychiatric patients, and epilepsy monitoring units. Many of the articles are meta-analyses or systematic reviews.

Here is one search technique that was used to find articles in PubMed: (“rounds hourly” OR “round hourly” OR “rounded hourly” OR “rounding hourly” OR “hourly rounding” OR “hourly rounds” OR “hourly physiologic” OR “physiologic monitoring hourly” OR ((“monitor hourly” OR “monitors hourly”) AND (“vital signs” OR physiologic))) AND (nurse OR nurses OR nursing)

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