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Table 2 Included studies primary outcomes and outcomes included in the meta-analysis

From: The impact of wearable continuous vital sign monitoring on deterioration detection and clinical outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Source

Design

Primary outcome

Deterioration detection outcomes

Clinical outcomes

ICU transfer

RRT activation or cardiac arrest team call

All complications

Major complications

Mortality

Length of stay

Meta-analysis

Skraastad et al. 2019

RCT

Time to mobilisation

  

X

X

X

X

Downey et al. 2020

Pilot RCT

Progression criteria to full RCT

X

 

X

X

X

X

Downey et al. 2018

Cluster RCT

Time to antibiotics in patients with sepsis

X

 

X

X

X

X

Kisner et al. 2009

Before-after

Incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation

  

X

   

Weller et al. 2018

Before-after

Rate of patient deterioration events

X

X

  

X

X

Verrillo et al. 2018

Before-after

Early deterioration detection

X

X

X

 

X

 

Watkinson et al. 2020

Before-after

Length of stay

X

X

  

X

X

Narrative

Weenk et al. 2019

RCT

Experiences of patients and care givers

      

Weenk et al. 2020

      

Monson et al. 2020

RCT

Amount of time with the interpretable fetal HR tracing during of labour

      
  1. ICU: Intensive Care unit, RCT: Randomised Controlled Trial, RRT: Rapid Response Team, x: study included that outcome