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Silencing many hospital alarms leads to better health care.

February 5, 2014

Knox R. Morning Edition. National Public Radio. January 27, 2014.

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Reporting on alarm fatigue, this radio segment includes insights from a nurse manager and systems engineer and reveals how one hospital addressed the issue by removing low-level alerts and enabling nurses to customize alarm settings according to patient needs.

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