AHRQ Patient Safety Network: AHRQ Innovations Exchange focuses on innovations designed to prevent alarm fatigue in hospitals.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network

AHRQ Innovations Exchange focuses on innovations designed to prevent alarm fatigue in hospitals.AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 18, 2014.

Alarm Fatigue in Hospital Setting.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 18, 2014.

This issue covers two successful initiatives to prevent alarm fatigue: the implementation of a 24-hour pulse oximetry monitoring and a series of interventions to reduce alarms in a cardiac unit. The innovation profiles are accompanied by tools used to help hospitals improve alarm safety.

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