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Alarm fatigue: use of an evidence-based alarm management strategy.
September 14, 2016
Turmell JW, Coke L, Catinella R, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2016;32(1):47-54.
Reducing nuisance alarms can address alarm fatigue and improve the safety of care. This commentary describes how one hospital utilized the Plan-Do-Study-Act model to design and implement an alarm monitoring strategy to decrease alarms and unnecessary continuous cardiac monitoring over a 2-year period. The authors summarize the results of the project and lessons learned.
