Safety Huddle Intervention for Reducing Physiologic Monitor Alarms: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitor alarms occur frequently but rarely warrant intervention.

Objective

This study aimed to determine if a safety huddle-based intervention reduces unit-level alarm rates or alarm rates of individual patients whose alarms are discussed, as well as evaluate implementation outcomes.

Design

Unit-level, cluster randomized, hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial with a secondary patient-level analysis.

Setting

Children's hospital.

Patients

Unit-level: all patients hospitalized on 4 control (n = 4177) and 4 intervention (n = 7131) units between June 15, 2015 and May 8, 2016. Patient-level: 425 patients on randomly selected dates postimplementation.

Intervention

Structured safety huddle review of alarm data from the patients on each unit

SUBMITTER: Bonafide CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12445287 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature