“…Twelve studies examined the impact of continuous vital signs monitoring on clinical outcomes. Five of these were randomised controlled trials (Langhorne et al, 2010;Ochroch et al, 2006;Sulter et al, 2003;Tarassenko et al, 2005;Watkinson et al, 2006), one was a non-randomised controlled trial (Cavallini et al, 2003), three were controlled beforeand-after studies (Brown et al, 2014;Kisner et al, 2009;Taenzer et al, 2010) and three were prospective observational studies (Taenzer et al, 2014;Varela et al, 2011;Wan et al, 2004). All were single-centre studies.…”