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. 2019 Jan;49(1):52-57.
doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000549728.37810.d9.

Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology

Kathleen Short  1 , You Jay Chung Jr
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Solving alarm fatigue with smartphone technology

Kathleen Short et al. Nursing. 2019 Jan.

Abstract

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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