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PICO
Question: Among pediatric nurses, is there an association between recent exposure to nonactionable monitor alarms and nurses’ response time to future alarms on the same patient?
Question type: Descriptive
Study design: Observational
Investigators from the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia determined the association between nurses’ recent exposure to nonactionable physiologic monitor alarms (NAA) and their response time to future potentially critical alarms (PCA) for the same patients. Nurses from a single pediatric institution who worked either on the general inpatient medicine ward or in the PICU were recruited to participate. Investigators videotaped participants’ patients for at least one 6-hour session using cameras that captured the patient’s monitor display, the patient, and all windows and doors through which staff could …
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