Annoyance by Alarms in the ICU: A Cognitive Approach to the Role of Interruptions by Patient Monitoring Alarms

Nurses rely on patient monitoring systems for care delivery in ICUs. Monitoring systems communicate information to nurses and alert them through audiovisual alarms. However, excessive numbers of alarms often interrupt nurses in their tasks, and desensitize them to alarms. The affective consequence of this problem is that nurses are annoyed and...

VERVOERMIDDELENGEBRUIK IN HET WOON-WERKVERKEER VAN INWONERS UIT KLEINE KERNEN.; TRAVEL PATTERNS AND MODE USE OF COMMUTERS FROM SMALL TOWNS.

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