Reducing the Risk of Alarm Fatigue Through the Use of Focused Management in Safety Huddles

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

812 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-03-31

Study Completion Date

2017-01-31

Brief Summary

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Context: Alarm fatigue is a threat to hospital patient safety. National surveys reveal that high alarm rates interrupt patient care, reduce trust in alarms, and lead clinicians to disable alarms entirely. Safety huddles offer an appropriate forum for reviewing alarm data and identifying patients whose high alarm rates may necessitate safe tailoring of alarm limits.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a focused physiologic monitor alarm reduction intervention integrated into safety huddles that involves discussing safe monitor parameter adjustments on the physiologic monitor alarm rates of individual patients with high alarm rates who meet "low acuity" criteria.

Study Design: A prospective, quasi-experimental pilot study of the impact of the huddle intervention on the alarm rates of low acuity high alarm rate individual patients discussed in huddles in the PICU. The huddle intervention will consist of a script to facilitate the discussion of the alarm data.

Setting/Participants: Participants will include all low acuity patients and their providers in the PICU at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Study Interventions and Measures: The primary outcome is the rate of crisis and warning alarms per patient day for intervention cases as compared with others in the high alarm / low acuity cohort. Safety measures will include unexpected changes in patient acuity or code blue events within one week of monitor change or discharge.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Clinical Alarms

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Primary Subjects

Physicians and nurse practitioners caring for patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). An alarm reduction script will be used to help facilitate discussion of alarm data during weekday morning team "huddles".

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Alarm Reduction Script

Intervention Type OTHER

The intervention will consist of a script to facilitate the discussion of the alarm data that will take place on weekday mornings. The script will be used by huddle participants as a structured outline to rapidly discuss the high alarm low acuity patients eligible for intervention. The patients who are identified will have further discussion on rounds to determine if there are appropriate ways to reduce the alarm rates of individual patients through the safe adjustment of physiologic monitor parameters.

Interventions

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Alarm Reduction Script

The intervention will consist of a script to facilitate the discussion of the alarm data that will take place on weekday mornings. The script will be used by huddle participants as a structured outline to rapidly discuss the high alarm low acuity patients eligible for intervention. The patients who are identified will have further discussion on rounds to determine if there are appropriate ways to reduce the alarm rates of individual patients through the safe adjustment of physiologic monitor parameters.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Secondary Subjects:

* Low acuity patients as determined by Optilink Guidelines
* High alarm patients (top 10-20%)
* Admission to the PICU

Exclusion Criteria

Secondary Subjects: Patients who are medically ready for transfer out of ICU or discharge home (status continuously tracked by charge nurse). Patients who are medically ready for transfer out have an accepting service in place and a bed ready on the floor.

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No