Where internal medical patients receive intensive interventions: results from a tertiary-care hospital in Israel

Table 1 Monitoring level available at the different beds at SZMC

	ICU	Intermediate unit	General-bed
Vital signs monitoring
Personal alarm	✔	✔	✔
Central monitor system	✔	✔
Central monitor alarm system	✔	✔
Ventilator/infusion pumps
Personal alarm	✔	✔	✔
Central monitoring system
Central monitoring alarm
Patient-nursing staff ratio	1:2	1:5	1:9–1:12
Direct line of sight to patient at all times	✔	✔

Level of monitoring available at different levels of acuity for internal medicine patients at SZMC

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