Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology Miscellaneous
| Authors: | Short, K.; Chung, Y. Jr |
| Title: | Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology |
| Abstract: | Alarms were developed to improve patient safety, but alarm fatigue may put patients at higher risk for harm. This article recounts one acute care institution's search for a better alarm management solution using smartphone technology to replace its beeper-based system for telemetry alarm events. Copyright © 2019 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | psychology; pilot study; pilot projects; patient safety; nursing staff, hospital; telemetry; nursing staff; nursing evaluation research; smartphone; procedures; hospital subdivisions and components; dysthymia; alarm monitor; humans; human; hospital units; alarms; smartphones; alarm fatigue; cardiac monitoring; telemetry monitoring; clinical alarms; mental fatigue |
| Journal Title: | Nursing |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 0360-4039 |
| Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Date Published: | 2019-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 52 |
| End Page: | 57 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000549728.37810.d9 |
| PUBMED: | 30586051 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Publisher-provided DOI does not resolve (as of 2019-02-04) -- Export Date: 1 February 2019 -- Source: Scopus |
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