{"title":"Ensuring Specificity as a Strategy for Increasing Alarm Safety","authors":"Gülnur Gül, Ş. Seren İntepeler","doi":"10.30621/jbachs.1251111","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Backround: Alarms are systems created to ensure patient safety. However, when its specificity is not ensured, false positive alarms occur, causing the crying wolf phenomenon and compromising patient safety. \nPurpose: This study aimed to decrease the number of false-positive alarms by ensuring the standardization and specificity of alarms. \nMethods: This prospective, quasi-experimental study with a pre/post intervention study was conducted in the adult intensive care unit of a training and research hospital through repeated measurements at the beginning and after the intervention. \nResults: The total alarm load decreased by 46% after the intervention, with the heart rate, saturation, and blood pressure alarms being reduced at a rate of 59%, 56%, and 23%, respectively. The hourly mean number of alarms decreased from 16.8 to 9. Differences between heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure alarms in terms of the parameter were statistically significant (p","PeriodicalId":40972,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30621/jbachs.1251111","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Backround: Alarms are systems created to ensure patient safety. However, when its specificity is not ensured, false positive alarms occur, causing the crying wolf phenomenon and compromising patient safety.
Purpose: This study aimed to decrease the number of false-positive alarms by ensuring the standardization and specificity of alarms.
Methods: This prospective, quasi-experimental study with a pre/post intervention study was conducted in the adult intensive care unit of a training and research hospital through repeated measurements at the beginning and after the intervention.
Results: The total alarm load decreased by 46% after the intervention, with the heart rate, saturation, and blood pressure alarms being reduced at a rate of 59%, 56%, and 23%, respectively. The hourly mean number of alarms decreased from 16.8 to 9. Differences between heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure alarms in terms of the parameter were statistically significant (p