Audibility of patient clinical alarms to hospital nursing personnel.

Josef Sobieraj; Claudia Ortega; Iris West; Leo Voepel; Steven Battle; DaShawn Robinson

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Audibility of patient clinical alarms to hospital nursing personnel.

May 10, 2006

Sobieraj J, Ortega C, West I, et al. Mil Med. 2006;171(4):306-10.

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The investigators studied whether nursing staff could hear patient care alarms over background noises and found audibility to be a problem in several situations. They suggest modifications to work processes to improve alarm audibility.

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