ReviewPatient safety in surgery2014
A critical assessment of monitoring practices, patient deterioration, and alarm fatigue on inpatient wards: a review.
Review in Patient safety in surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sepsis Alerts in Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review of Accuracy and Quality Measure Impact.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Faster clinical response to the onset of adverse events: A wearable metacognitive attention aid for nurse triage of clinical alarms.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Slovak cross-cultural adaptation of the Alarm Fatigue Assessment Questionnaire.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Japanese Charité Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire (CAFQa) Among ICU Nurses and Physicians: A Multicentre Study.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Early Warning Scores With and Without Artificial Intelligence.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Alarm fatigue and sleep quality in medical staff-a Polish-Czech-Slovak study on workplace ergonomics.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Alarms in a neurocritical care unit: a prospective study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2022Article
- Insights into postoperative respiration by using continuous wireless monitoring of respiratory rate on the postoperative ward: a cohort study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2020Article
- Unanticipated Respiratory Compromise and Unplanned Intubations on General Medical and Surgical Floors.Respiratory care · 2020Article
- Towards development of alert thresholds for clinical deterioration using continuous predictive analytics monitoring.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2020Article
- [Postoperative remote monitoring].Der Anaesthesist · 2020Review
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- The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia recommendations for the use of opioids in children during the perioperative period.Paediatric anaesthesia · 2019Article
- USE PREFERENCES FOR CONTINUOUS CARDIAC AND RESPIRATORY MONITORING SYSTEMS IN HOSPITALS: A SURVEY OF PATIENTS AND FAMILY CAREGIVERS.Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare · 2018Article
- A review of recent advances in data analytics for post-operative patient deterioration detection.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2018Review
- Implementation of a novel postoperative monitoring system using automated Modified Early Warning Scores (MEWS) incorporating end-tidal capnography.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2017Article
- Improving the Recognition of, and Response to In-Hospital Sepsis.Current infectious disease reports · 2016Review
- What's new with rapid response systems?Intensive care medicine · 2015Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Approximately forty million surgeries take place annually in the United States, many of them requiring overnight or lengthier post operative stays in the over five thousand hospitals that comprise our acute healthcare system. Leading up to this Century, it was common for most hospitalized patients and their families to believe that being surrounded by well-trained nurses and physicians assured their safety. That bubble burst with the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report: To Err Is Human, followed closely by its 2001 report: Crossing the Quality Chasm. This review article discusses unexpected, potentially lethal respiratory complications known for being difficult to detect early, especially in postoperative patients recovering on hospital general care floors (GCF). We have designed our physiologic explanations and simplified cognitive framework to give our front line clinical nurses a thorough, easy-to-recall understanding of just how these events evolve, and how to detect them early when most amenable to treatment. Our review will also discuss currently available practices in general care floor monitoring that can both improve patient safety and significantly reduce monitor associated alarm fatigue.
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