The problem of alarm fatigue

Nursing for Women's Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-157

  Tanner, Tanya ^a,b  

^a Frontier Nursing University   (United States)

^b Aurora Nurse Midwives   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm burden; Alarm fatigue; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876475239     PISSN: 17514851     EISSN: 1751486X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-486X.12025     Document Type: Article

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