{"id":47574,"date":"2017-05-18T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=47574"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:18:31","slug":"false-alarm-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/false-alarm-study\/","title":{"rendered":"National Science Foundation funds NAU project to reduce false alarm rates in ICUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">False alarms are widely considered the No. 1 hazard caused by use of medical technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Health care providers can be overwhelmed with as many as 350 alarms triggered per patient per day, of which 80-99 percent are meaningless or false. These false alarms, which can be due to several factors, may result in alarm fatigue among health care providers where the possibility of missing a true life-threatening event can be lost in a cacophony of multiple alarms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fatemeh Afghah, an assistant professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/siccs\/\"><span class=\"s2\">School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems<\/span><\/a> at Northern Arizona University, received a $175,000 grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\"><span class=\"s2\">National Science Foundation<\/span><\/a> to develop a computational framework to reduce the false alarm rate in intensive care units (ICUs) by integrating principles from information theory, game theory and signal processing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this project, Afghah aims to develop an accurate yet general method to reduce the number of false alarms while avoiding the suppression of true alarms through integrating information from a variety of devices. The proposed false alarm detection method will potentially save many patients&#8217; lives and significantly reduce medical costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alarm safety has been determined as a national patient safety goal by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jointcommission.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">The Joint Commission<\/span><\/a>, which accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/false-alarm-study\/\">False alarms are widely considered the No. 1 hazard caused by use of medical technologies. Health care providers can be overwhelmed with as many as 350 alarms triggered per patient per day, of which 80-99 percent are meaningless or false. These false alarms, which can be due to several factors, may result in alarm fatigue&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":47575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1702,199,1479,1701],"class_list":["post-47574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics","tag-fatemeh-afghah","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-school-of-informatics","tag-the-joint-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}