Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology.

Nursing

At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, N.Y., Kathleen Short is a clinical nurse specialist and You "Jay" Chung, Jr. is a nursing informatics project manager.

Published: January 2019

Alarms were developed to improve patient safety, but alarm fatigue may put patients at higher risk for harm. This article recounts one acute care institution's search for a better alarm management solution using smartphone technology to replace its beeper-based system for telemetry alarm events.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.NURSE.0000549728.37810.d9DOI Listing

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