Methodology for Ensuring Accuracy and Validity of Infusion Pump Alarm Data

摘要

Clinical alarm reduction is a priority goal among national organizations, professional societies, healthcare facilities, and industry. The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarm safety requires healthcare facilities to identify the most important medical device alarms to manage, then make improvements to ensure that these alarms are heard and addressed. The collection of data is among the first steps in assessing and identifying which alarms to manage. Data are essential to healthcare facilities' ability to identify which medical devices to target and which alarms are most problematic. Because these data will serve as the basis for measuring and reporting clinical alarm outcomes, they should be meaningful and accurate and the methodology for extracting them should be reliable and valid.