Alarm fatigue is a national problem and the number one medical device technology hazard
in 2012. The problem of alarm desensitization is multifaceted and related to a high false …

Objective: Alarm fatigue is a widely recognized safety and quality problem where exposure
to high rates of clinical alarms results in desensitization leading to dismissal of or slowed …

Page 1 BECOMING A BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCHER A GUIDE TO PRODUCING
RESEARCH THAT MATTERS Rex B. Kline Page 2 Becoming a Behavioral Science …

Objectives This paper summarizes much of the research that is applicable to the design of
auditory alarms in a medical context. It also summarizes research that demonstrates that …

Alarms are used in many clinical applications, but they are often less than optimal because
the design and implementation of alarms has not always taken the cognitive capacity and …

The high number of false positive alarms has long been known to be a serious problem in
critical care medicine–yet it remains unresolved. At the same time, threats to patient safety …

Ten years after the publication of a landmark article in AACN Advanced Critical Care, alarm
fatigue continues to be an issue that researchers, clinicians, and organizations aim to …

Although there are powerful incentives for creating alarm management programmes to
reduce 'alarm fatigue', they do not provide guidance on how to reduce the likelihood that …

Increasing noise in hospital environments, especially in intensive care units (ICUs) and
operating rooms (ORs), has created a formidable challenge for both patients and hospital …

Modern vehicle cockpits have begun to incorporate a number of information-rich techno-
logies, including systems to enhance and improve driving and navigation performance and …