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Inpatient sleep deprivation is associated with poor health outcomes. Investigators at a Chicago academic medical center prospectively compared medical-ward patients admitted to a hospital unit that received a SIESTA (Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act) intervention — nursing education and empowerment, physician education, and electronic health record changes — with similar patients admitted to a unit that did not receive a SIESTA intervention. Intervention unit nurses and physicians were encouraged to collaborate to prevent unnecessary interruptions of patients' sleep from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. — including stopping unnecessary vital sign assessments and nighttime injections of heparin.
On the intervention unit, nighttime room entries …