Technologic Distractions (Part 1): Summary of Approaches to Manage Alert Quantity with Intent to Reduce Alert Fatigue and Suggestions for Alert Fatigue Metrics

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1481-1488

  Kane Gill, Sandra L ^a,b   O'Connor, Michael F ^c   Rothschild, Jeffrey M ^d   Selby, Nicholas M ^e   McLean, Barbara ^f   Bonafide, Christopher P ^g,h   Cvach, Maria M ⁱ   Hu, Xiao ^j   Konkani, Avinash ^k   Pelter, Michele M ^j   Winters, Bradford D ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f Grady Health SysteMS Atlanta   (United States)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ John Hopkins Health System   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^l JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

alert burden; alert fatigue; clinical decision support systems; critical care; electronic health records; intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ALERT FATIGUE; ALERT FATIGUE (HEALTH CARE); ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CINAHL; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DESENSITIZATION; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG INTERACTION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FATIGUE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEARNING; MANAGED CARE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOPUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; ALARM MONITOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSTHYMIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

CLINICAL ALARMS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MENTAL FATIGUE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 85021972547     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002580     Document Type: Article

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