Alarm Fatigue in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter, Mixed-Method Study of Monitor Alarms.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe the frequency and pattern of monitor alarms in the emergency department (ED), in combination with exploring the staff's experience of alarms and alarm fatigue.

Methods

This was a multicenter, mixed-method study of observational monitor alarms and semistructured staff interviews with inductive qualitative content analysis from 3 EDs in Sweden. The primary measures were alarm frequency and confirmation times. Quantile regression was used to analyze the association between alarms and confirmation times.

Results

In total, 396,011 alarms were registered during the data collection period, or 1 alarm every 30 seconds in the urban and academic centers and every 120 seconds in the rural hospital, on average. Median confirmation times were 11 seconds for hig

SUBMITTER: Johansson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11919588 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature