Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration
Author(s) -
Nader Najafi,
Russ Cucina,
Bruce Pierre,
Raman Khanna
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.5859
Subject(s) - medicine , telemetry , psychological intervention , emergency medicine , medical emergency , randomized controlled trial , duration (music) , intervention (counseling) , cluster randomised controlled trial , nursing , engineering , aerospace engineering , art , literature
Physicians frequently use cardiac monitoring, or telemetry, beyond the duration recommended by published practice standards, resulting in "alarm fatigue" and excess cost. Prior studies have demonstrated an association between multicomponent quality improvement interventions and safe reduction of telemetry duration.
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