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Organization Recommendations

The Joint Commission National Safety Goal

Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals

The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert

Medical Device Alarm Safety in Hospitals

The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert

Safe Use of Opioids in Hospitals

APSF 2011 Guidelines

Weinger et al. No Patient Shall Be Harmed By Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression

Clinical Studies

Value of Patient SafetyNet™

Dartmouth-Hitchcock 2011 Nursing Annual Report: Continuous Patient Surveillance Monitoring, Published on May 2, 2012 by Dartmouth-Hitchcock
As part of Dartmouth-Hitchcock's 2011 Nursing Annual Report, Nancy Karon, BSN, RN, ONC at Dartmouth-Hitchcock discusses how SafetyNet™ helps save lives at one of the nation’s leading hospitals.

Anesthesiology

Taenzer et al. Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-and-After Concurrence Study. 2010.

APSF Newsletter 2012

Taenzer et al. Postoperative Monitoring–The Dartmouth Experience

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Shah N et al. Performance of three new-generation pulse oximeters during motion and low perfusion in volunteers

Surveillance Monitoring

Learning from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Experience

Alarm Management

Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare

Pyke et al. Continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in the inpatient population. 2009.

AAMI Horizons

Welch. An evidence-based approach to reduce nuisance alarms and alarm fatigue. 2011.

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ECRI Institute Top 10 Health Technology

Hazards Report for 2015

AAMI Foundation HTSI Clinical Alarms Webinars

HTSI Webinar Series on Alarm Systems Management

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Santell J. Parenteral Medication Errors, ASHP Summit on Preventing Death and Harm from Use of Intravenous Medications. ASHP July 2008
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Hendrich et al. A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time? The Permanente Journal/ Summer 2008/ Volume 12 No. 3
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HealthGrades. The Eighth Annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. March 2011. Golden Col. HealthGrades Inc.
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