Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?

Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms. This paper gives an overview of the problems related to their current design and the objectives of monitoring. The current approaches us...

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Autor principal: Chambrin, Marie-Christine
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11511330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1021
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description Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms. This paper gives an overview of the problems related to their current design and the objectives of monitoring. The current approaches used to improve the situation are then presented from two main standpoints: organizational and behavioural on the one hand, and technical on the other.
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spelling pubmed-1372772003-02-27 Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced? Chambrin, Marie-Christine Crit Care Review Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms. This paper gives an overview of the problems related to their current design and the objectives of monitoring. The current approaches used to improve the situation are then presented from two main standpoints: organizational and behavioural on the one hand, and technical on the other. BioMed Central 2001 2001-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC137277/ /pubmed/11511330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1021 Text en Copyright © 2001 BioM ed Central Ltd on behalf of the copyright holder
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Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title_full Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title_fullStr Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title_full_unstemmed Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title_short Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
title_sort alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11511330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1021
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