1. An automated collection and analysis patient care system for diagnosing and monitoring respiratory insufficiency and outcomes thereof, comprising: a database storing patient monitoring information, comprising: a plurality of monitoring sets, each monitoring set comprising recorded measures which each relate to patient information and comprise either medical device measures or derived measures calculable therefrom, the medical device measures having been recorded on a substantially continuous basis; a set of stored indicator thresholds, each indicator threshold corresponding to a quantifiable physiological measure of a pathophysiology indicative of respiratory insufficiency and relating to a same type of patient information as at least one of the recorded measures; a server diagnosing a respiratory insufficiency finding, comprising: an analysis module determining a change in patient status by comparing at least one recorded measure to at least one other recorded measure with both recorded measures relating to the same type of patient information; and a comparison module comparing each patient status change to the indicator threshold corresponding to the same type of patient information as the recorded measures which were compared.