Rethinking hospital alarms

Friday, May 27, 2016 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

On average, there are about 480,000 patients in hospitals in the United States -- each generating about 135 clinical alarms per day. But studies show that more than 90 percent of these alarms result in no action, and alarm errors occur roughly 8 million times per day.

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