Video Analysis of Factors Associated With Response Time to Physiologic Monitor Alarms in a Children's Hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Bedside monitor alarms alert nurses to life-threatening physiologic changes among patients, but the response times of nurses are slow.

Objective

To identify factors associated with physiologic monitor alarm response time.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective cohort study used 551 hours of video-recorded care administered by 38 nurses to 100 children in a children's hospital medical unit between July 22, 2014, and November 11, 2015.

Exposures

Patient, nurse, and alarm-level factors hypothesized to predict response time.

Main outcomes and measures

We used multivariable accelerated failure-time models stratified by each nurse and adjusted for clustering within patients to evaluate associations between exposures and response time to

SUBMITTER: Bonafide CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459660 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature