Customizing Physiologic Alarms in the Emergency Department: A Regression Discontinuity, Quality Improvement Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Clinical alarms promote patient safety by alerting clinicians when there is an indication or change in a condition requiring a response. An excessive volume of alarm fires, however, contributes to sensory overload and desensitization, referred to as alarm fatigue, which has significant implications when alarms are missed. This evidence-based, practice project aimed to implement and evaluate a program that reduces the number of clinically nonactionable, physiologic alarms in an emergency department. Although alarm fatigue is an important negative consequence, the focus of this project is not on alarm fatigue but on measures to reduce the volume of clinically nonactionable alarms that lead to alarm fatigue. The Iowa Model was used as a conceptual framework.

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SUBMITTER: Fujita LY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature