Research Citations

Lewandowska K, Weisbrot M, Cieloszyk A, Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska W, Krupa S, Ozga D. Impact of Alarm Fatigue on the Work of Nurses in an Intensive Care Environment—A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7697990/

Woo M. Alarm Fatigue. Making Healthcare Safer III (NCBI Bookshelf), 2020. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555522/

Li Q, Clifford GD. Signal Processing: False Alarm Reduction. Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records (NCBI Bookshelf), 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK543632

Jacques S, Williams E. Reducing the Safety Hazards of Monitor Alert and Alarm Fatigue. AHRQ PSNet, 2016. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/reducing-safety-hazards-monitor-alert-and-alarm-fatigue

Pelter MM. Harm From Alarm Fatigue. AHRQ PSNet WebM&M. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/harm-alarm-fatigue

Alert Fatigue. AHRQ PSNet (Primer). https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/alert-fatigue

The Joint Commission. National Patient Safety Goals® Effective January 2025 for the Hospital Program (PDF). https://digitalassets.jointcommission.org/api/public/content/9be383450fc941df806b76c5fbdd9ae6?v=3c600c3a

The Joint Commission. Hospital 2025 National Patient Safety Goals Simplified (PDF).https://digitalassets.jointcommission.org/api/public/content/98c01cec668645838d7a8bd0513b2061?v=163bc473

AACN. Practice Alert Outlines Alarm Management Strategies.https://www.aacn.org/newsroom/practice-alert-outlines-alarm-management-strategies

AACN. Managing Alarms in Acute Care Across the Life Span: Electrocardiography and Pulse Oximetry. https://www.aacn.org/clinical-resources/practice-alerts/managing-alarms-in-acute-care-across-the-life-span

Ruskin KJ, Hueske-Kraus D. Alarm fatigue: impacts on patient safety. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2015. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26539788/

Ruskin KJ. Alarm Fatigue and Patient Safety. Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF). https://www.apsf.org/article/alarm-fatigue-and-patient-safety/

Salameh B, et al. Alarm fatigue and perceived stress among critical care nurses. BMC Nursing, 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12912-024-01897-x

Drew BJ, et al. Insights into the Problem of Alarm Fatigue with Physiologic Monitor Devices. PLOS ONE, 2014. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110274

Mousavi S, Fotoohinasab A, Afghah F. Single-modal and multi-modal false arrhythmia alarm reduction. PLOS ONE, 2020. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226990

Chambrin M-C. Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced? Critical Care, 2001. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC137277/

Wilken M, Hüske-Kraus D, et al. Alarm Fatigue: Causes and Effects. 2017. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28883181/

Sendelbach S, Funk M. Alarm fatigue: a patient safety concern. 2013.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24153215/

Managing Alarms in Acute Care Across the Life Span (AACN journal article). https://aacnjournals.org/ccnonline/article/38/2/e16/3623/Managing-Alarms-in-Acute-Care-Across-the-Life-Span

Identifying the Alarm Fatigue Status of Nurses Working in Cardiac Intensive Care Units. https://aacnjournals.org/ajcconline/article/35/1/32/32926/Identifying-the-Alarm-Fatigue-Status-of-Nurses

Gündoğan G, et al. The effects of alarm fatigue on nurses’ tendency to respond to alarms. Nursing in Critical Care, 2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nicc.12969