Joellan Mullen, Sulimon Sattari, Melissa Rauch, Fernando Stein, Kevin Roy, Darlene E Acorda
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Abstract
Background: Nuisance and false alarms distract clinicians from urgent alerts, raising patient safety risks.
Local problem: High alarm rates in a pediatric progressive care unit resulted in experiencing 180-250 alarms per day or 1 alarm every 3 to 4 minutes per clinician.
Methods: Through Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, environmental, policy, and technology changes were implemented to decrease the average alarms/day/bed and percentage of time in alarm.
Interventions: Alarm settings tailored to patient needs using features embedded within the patient monitoring system were implemented and monitored with the assistance of alarm champions.
Results: The average number of alarms/day/bed decreased from 177.69 to 96.94 over the course of 10 years, a 45.45% reduction. The percentage of time in alarm decreased from 7.52% to 2.83%, a 62.37% reduction.
Conclusions: Arming clinicians with technology to analyze real-time clinical data made alarms meaningful and actionable, decreasing false alarms without compromising patient safety.
期刊介绍：
Journal of Nursing Care Quality (JNCQ) is a peer-reviewed journal that provides practicing nurses as well as nurses who have leadership roles in nursing care quality programs with useful information regarding the application of quality principles and concepts in the practice setting. The journal offers a forum for the scholarly discussion of “real world” implementation of quality activities.
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