ReviewScientific reports2023
A brief questionnaire for measuring alarm fatigue in nurses and physicians in intensive care units.
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- Smart Cardiac ICU: Digital Integration, Predictive Analytics, and Perioperative Inflammation.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Too Demanding to Stay? Fatigue and Depressive Symptoms as Mediators of Turnover Intention in Romanian Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 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
- Alarm Fatigue and Nursing Performance Among Hospital Nurses in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Study of Indirect Association Through Perceived Stress and Moderating Role of Patient Safety Culture.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A data and knowledge cross-level fusion-driven learning framework for detecting missing diagnosis.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Translation and psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Charité Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assessment of alarm fatigue among intensive care unit nurses: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- A retrospective cross-sectional study showing wearable smartwatches enhance patient safety and efficiency in the intensive care unit.Communications medicine · 2025Article
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- Developing a Scalable Annotation Method for Large Datasets That Enhances Alarms With Actionability Data to Increase Informativeness: Mixed Methods Approach.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Nurses' Alarm Fatigue Levels in Adult Intensive Care Units and Their Strategies to Reduce Fatigue: A Convergent Parallel Design.Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Observational
- Unlocking opportunities to transform patient care: an expert insight on limitations and opportunities in patient monitoring.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2025Review
- Alarm Management in Provisional COVID-19 Intensive Care Units: Retrospective Analysis and Recommendations for Future Pandemics.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Construct Validity of the Charité Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire using Confirmatory Factor Analysis.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Personalized Medicine Transformed: ChatGPT's Contribution to Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Alarm Management in Intensive Care Units.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
- Relationship Between Alarm Fatigue and Stress Among Acute Care Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.SAGE open nursingArticle
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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
When exposed to hundreds of medical device alarms per day, intensive care unit (ICU) staff can develop "alarm fatigue" (i.e., desensitisation to alarms). However, no standardised way of quantifying alarm fatigue exists. We aimed to develop a brief questionnaire for measuring alarm fatigue in nurses and physicians. After developing a list of initial items based on a literature review, we conducted 15 cognitive interviews with the target group (13 nurses and two physicians) to ensure that the items are face valid and comprehensible. We then asked 32 experts on alarm fatigue to judge whether the items are suited for measuring alarm fatigue. The resulting 27 items were sent to nurses and physicians from 15 ICUs of a large German hospital. We used exploratory factor analysis to further reduce the number of items and to identify scales. A total of 585 submissions from 707 participants could be analysed (of which 14% were physicians and 64% were nurses). The simple structure of a two-factor model was achieved within three rounds. The final questionnaire (called Charité Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire; CAFQa) consists of nine items along two scales (i.e., the "alarm stress scale" and the "alarm coping scale"). The CAFQa is a brief questionnaire that allows clinical alarm researchers to quantify the alarm fatigue of nurses and physicians. It should not take more than five minutes to administer.
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