ENSURING SPECIFICITY AS A STRATEGY FOR INCREASING ALARM SAFETY.
| Autor: | Gul, Gulnur, Intepeler, Seyda Seren |
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INTENSIVE care units
BLOOD pressure STATISTICAL significance CONFIDENCE intervals RESEARCH methodology MONITOR alarms (Medicine) OXYGEN saturation MANN Whitney U Test PRE-tests & post-tests PATIENT monitoring CRITICAL care medicine REPEATED measures design HEART beat DESCRIPTIVE statistics SENSITIVITY & specificity (Statistics) DATA analysis software PATIENT safety LONGITUDINAL method |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Basic & Clinical Health Sciences; Sep2023, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p139-147, 9p |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Alarms are systems created to ensure patient safety. However, when its specificity is not ensured, false positive alarms occur, causing the crying wolf phenomenon and compromising patient safety. Purpose: This study aimed to decrease the number of false-positive alarms by ensuring the standardization and specificity of alarms. Methods: This prospective, quasi-experimental study with a pre/post intervention study was conducted in the adult intensive care unit of a training and research hospital through repeated measurements at the beginning and after the intervention. Results: The total alarm load decreased by 46% after the intervention, with the heart rate, saturation, and blood pressure alarms being reduced at a rate of 59%, 56%, and 23%, respectively. The hourly mean number of alarms decreased from 16.8 to 9. Differences between heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure alarms in terms of the parameter were statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: The study showed that the number of alarms could be decreased by standardizing the alarms and ensuring specificity in the adult intensive care unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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