Ensuring patient safety in wireless medical device networks.

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Ensuring patient safety in wireless medical device networks.

May 3, 2006

Gehlot V; Sloane EB.

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The authors discuss clinical alarm systems from a technical perspective and propose a toolkit to help make complex clinical IT systems more technically reliable.

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