Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals [PDF]
, 2020 INTRODUCTION: Outbreaks of communicable diseases in hospitals need to be quickly detected in order to enable immediate control. The increasing digitalization of hospital data processing offers potential solutions for automated outbreak detection systems
Aghdassi, Seven Johannes Sam +9 more
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The influence of nursing activities score on clinical alarms service [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objectives: to estimate the magnitude of the Nursing Activities Score effect on multiparametric monitor alarm response and staff response time. Methods: an observational, cross-sectional study outlined as an open cohort, performed in an Adult General ...
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Non-Contact Video-Based Neonatal Respiratory Monitoring
Children, 2020 Respiratory rate (RR) has been shown to be a reliable predictor of cardio-pulmonary deterioration, but standard RR monitoring methods in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU) with contact leads have been related to iatrogenic complications.
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Learning medical alarms whilst performing other tasks. [PDF]
, 2013 Two studies are reported which first observe, and then attempt to replicate, the cognitive demands of intensive care unit (ICU) activity whilst concurrently learning audible alarms.
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The heuristics of nurse responsiveness to critical patient monitor and ventilator alarms in a private room neonatal intensive care unit. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Alarm fatigue is a well-recognized patient safety concern in intensive care settings. Decreased nurse responsiveness and slow response times to alarms are the potentially dangerous consequences of alarm fatigue. The aim of this study was to determine the
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BMJ Open, 2013 Objectives To determine (1) the proportion and number of clinically relevant alarms based on the type of monitoring device; (2) whether patient clinical severity, based on the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, affects the proportion of ...
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Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020 Physiologic alarms are an important modality in the care of critically ill patients. Yet the many electronic devices used in patient care and the combination of alarms can cause sensory overload in caregivers.
Kathy Baker, James Rodger
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Syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness in Scotland during the influenza A H1N1v pandemic and beyond [PDF]
, 2012 Syndromic surveillance refers to the rapid monitoring of syndromic data to highlight and follow outbreaks of infectious diseases, increasing situational awareness.
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JMIR Human Factors, 2015 BackgroundIntensive care units (ICUs) are complex work environments where false alarms occur more frequently than on non-critical care units. The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal .06.01.01 targeted improving the safety of clinical alarm ...
Sowan, Azizeh Khaled +4 more
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Adding Recognition Discriminability Index to the Delayed Recall Is Useful to Predict Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Ongoing research is focusing on the identification of those individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who are most likely to convert to Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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