Background: Alarm fatigue is a serious patient safety issue and represents a 2015 National Patient Safety Goal.  False alarms can mask true alarms, and may contribute to suboptimal patient care practices.  Cardiac telemetry monitoring in particular has been a focus in the Choosing Wisely campaign and at our institution. Purpose: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach was [...]

Background: Despite the introduction of Early Warning Scores (EWSs), clinical deterioration (CD) remains an actual problem on the general ward. A next step to counter CD would be to intensify measurement from intermittent 8 hours to continuous measurements. This leads to big data sets of patient monitoring data with great potential. Use of advanced predictive [...]

Background: Previous studies examining continuous patient monitoring in the ICU and emergency department suggest that substantial telemetry alarm burden combined with a high proportion of false positive alerts may jeopardize patient outcomes. Currently, little is known about the burden and value of specific alarms on the general wards. Methods: As part of a quality improvement [...]