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National Coalition for Alarm Management Safety.
Healthcare Technology Safety Institute and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.
Alarm fatigue has been recognized as a contributor to serious errors in hospitals. This Web site provides a way for hospitals, industry representatives, regulators, and professional societies to compile resources and discuss strategies to reduce unnecessary alarms.
Newspaper/Magazine Article
24-Hour inpatient pulse oximetry monitoring reduces rescue events and intensive care unit transfers.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 18, 2014.
Effective monitoring can enable early detection of deteriorating patients while reducing nuisance alarms. Relating how one hospital implemented round-the-clock monitoring and adjusted alarm thresholds, this article reports results of the program such as fewer patient transfers to the intensive care unit and no subsequent adverse events.
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Alarm Fatigue in Hospital Setting.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 18, 2014.
This issue covers two successful initiatives to prevent alarm fatigue: the implementation of a 24-hour pulse oximetry monitoring and a series of interventions to reduce alarms in a cardiac unit. The innovation profiles are accompanied by tools used to help hospitals improve alarm safety.
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Learning how to learn: compliance with patient safety alerts in the NHS.
In: On the State of the Public Health: Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2004. London, England: Department of Health; 2005.
This chapter analyzes compliance with National Health Service patient safety alerts, as outlined in An Organization with a Memory, in four risk areas and makes recommendations for improving compliance.