A brief questionnaire for measuring alarm fatigue in nurses and physicians in intensive care units.

When exposed to hundreds of medical device alarms per day, intensive care unit (ICU) staff can develop "alarm fatigue" (i.e., desensitisation to alarms).

Staff perspectives on the influence of patient characteristics on alarm management in the intensive care unit: a cross-sectional survey study.

Background: High rates of clinical alarms in the intensive care unit can result in alarm fatigue among staff. Individualization of alarm thresholds is regarded as one measure to reduce non-actionable alarms. The aim of this study was to investigate staff's perceptions of alarm threshold individualization according to patient characteristics and disease status.

Improving quality of care in less than 1 min: a prospective intervention study on postoperative handovers to the ICU/PACU.

Purpose: Standardisation of the postoperative handover process via checklists, trainings or procedural changes has shown to be effective in reducing information loss. The clinical friction of implementing these measures has received little attention. We developed and evaluated a visual aid (VA) and >1 min in situ training intervention to improve the quality of postoperative handovers to the intensive care unit (ICU) and postoperative care unit.