Perceptually Discriminating the Highest Priority Alarms Reduces Response Time: A Retrospective Pre-Post Study at Four Hospitals.

Objective: Reduce nurse response time for emergency and high-priority alarms by increasing discriminability between emergency and all other alarms and suppressing redundant and likely false high-priority alarms in a secondary alarm notification system (SANS).

Background: Emergency alarms are the most urgent, requiring immediate action to address a dangerous situation. They are clinician-triggered and have higher positive predictive value (PPV).

HOW NURSES IDENTIFY HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS ON THEIR PERSONAL NOTES: FINDINGS FROM ANALYZING 'BRAINS' HEADERS WITH MULTIPLE RATERS.

The overarching objective of this research is to reduce the burden of documentation in electronic health records by registered nurses in hospitals. Registered nurses have consistently reported that e-documentation is a concern with the introduction of electronic health records. As a result, many nurses use handwritten notes in order to avoid using electronic health records to access information about patients.