Association between exposure to nonactionable physiologic monitor alarms and response time in a children's hospital

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 345-351

  Bonafide, Christopher P ^a,b,c   Lin, Richard ^a,b   Zander, Miriam ^a   Graham, Christian Sarkis ^a   Paine, Christine W ^a   Rock, Whitney ^a   Rich, Andrew ^a   Roberts, Kathryn E ^a   Fortino, Margaret ^d   Nadkarni, Vinay M ^a,b   Localio, A Russell ^b   Keren, Ron ^a,b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HUMAN; INOTROPISM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MANPOWER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NURSING; NURSING CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL ALARMS; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC NURSING; REACTION TIME; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84930380495     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2331     Document Type: Article

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