Predictive combinations of monitor alarms preceding in-hospital code blue events

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 913-921

  Hu, Xiao ^a,b   Sapo, Monica ^a   Nenov, Val ^a   Barry, Tod ^c   Kim, Sunghan ^a   Do, Duc H ^a   Boyle, Noel ^a   Martin, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm fatigue; Alarms; Association rule mining; Cardiac arrest; Code blue

Indexed keywords

10-FOLD CROSS-VALIDATION; ALARMS; ALGORITHM PARAMETERS; CARDIAC ARREST; CODE BLUE; CROSS VALIDATION; FALSE POSITIVE; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; OPTIMAL SETTING; PATIENT SAFETY; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); DATA MINING; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ALARM MONITOR; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TRAINING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL ALARMS; DATA MINING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84865961371     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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