Analysis: Protocol for a New Method to Measure Physiologic Monitor Alarm Responsiveness.
Biomed Instrum Technol
; 54(6): 389-396, 2020 Nov 01.
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ABSTRACT
Evaluating the clinical impacts of healthcare alarm management systems plays a critical role in assessing newly implemented monitoring technology, exposing latent threats to patient safety, and identifying opportunities for system improvement. We describe a novel, accurate, rapidly implementable, and readily reproducible in situ simulation approach to measure alarm response times and rates without the challenges and expense of video analysis. An interprofessional team consisting of biomedical engineers, human factors engineers, information technology specialists, nurses, physicians, facilitators from the hospital's simulation center, clinical informaticians, and hospital administrative leadership worked with three units at a pediatric hospital to design and conduct the simulations. Existing hospital technology was used to transmit a simulated, unambiguously critical alarm that appeared to originate from an actual patient to the nurse's mobile device, and discreet observers measured responses. Simulation observational data can be used to design and evaluate quality improvement efforts to address alarm responsiveness and to benchmark performance of different alarm communication systems.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Alarmas Clínicas
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Biomed Instrum Technol
Asunto de la revista:
ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
Año:
2020
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Article