Parental Insights into Improving Home Pulse Oximetry Monitoring in Infants.

ABSTRACT: Home pulse oximeters prescribed for infants with cardiorespiratory conditions generate many false alarms, which create caregiver stress and sleep disturbance and can lead to unsafe practices. Additionally, relationships among oximeters, alarms, and everyday living demands are not well understood. Therefore, we aimed to gather parent perspectives on home pulse oximetry monitoring during the problem analysis phase of a quality improvement (QI) initiative.

Methods

We purposively sampled and interviewed parents of infants prescribed home pulse oximeters and receiving local home care company services. We based questions on systems engineering frameworks previously used in healthcare. Data were coded iteratively and analyzed deductively (theoretical frameworks) and inductively (emerging t

SUBMITTER: Ferro DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970095 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature