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Current ICU alarm algorithms elicit numerous false positive alarms, producing an inefficient healthcare system where nurses habitually ignore low-level alerts due to their overabundance.
Current ICU alarm algorithms produce numerous false positive alarms, leading to alarm fatigue and an inefficient healthcare system.
Alarm fatigue persists in ICUs; leaves open algorithm improvements pending prospective validation before any practice change.
In order to monitor patients in the Intensive Care Unit, healthcare practitioners set threshold alarms on each of many individual vital sign monitors. The current alarm algorithms elicit numerous false positive alarms producing an inefficient healthcare system, where nurses habitually ignore low level alarms due to their overabundance.
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Stevens et al. (2012) studied this question. Current ICU alarm algorithms elicit numerous false positive alarms, producing an inefficient healthcare system where nurses habitually ignore low-level alerts due to their overabundance.
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