Audibility of patient clinical alarms to hospital nursing personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-310

  Sobieraj, Josef ^a   Ortega, Claudia ^b   West, Iris ^a,c   Voepel, Leo ^a   Battle, Steven ^a,d   Robinson, DaShawn ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

^d Department of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; NOISE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; WARD;

EID: 33646009656     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.4.306     Document Type: Article

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