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Monitoring (medicine)
Observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time.
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It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters by using a medical monitor (for example, by continuously measuring vital signs by a bedside monitor), and/or by repeatedly performing medical tests (such as blood glucose monitoring with a glucose meter in people with diabetes mellitus).
Transmitting data from a monitor to a distant monitoring station is known as telemetry or biotelemetry.