From “bench” to bedside: science-based alarm management with high IMPActS

In my upcoming presentation at the Human Factors in Healthcare Symposium (March 21-23, 2022 in New Orleans, LA), Dr. Michael Rayo will walk through the contributions of our alarm research and design work made possible through our P30 grant awarded from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Rayo will step through the relevant science that was applied, the research and design process that was used, the relevant findings, and our current and future directions. Dr. Rayo will also discuss the successes and failures of each of our related interventions through the lens of the IMPActS framework, which can also be used as a design and implementation planning tool to anticipate potential barriers and facilitators (Fitzgerald, 2019).

[Here] is a synopsis of this talk.

References:

Block, F. E. (2008). “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”(I Corinthians 14: 8, KJV). Anesthesia & Analgesia, 106(2), 357. Retrieved from http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/106/2/357.short

Fitzgerald, M. (2019). The IMPActS Framework:  the necessary requirements for making science-based organizational impact.

Hansen, C. J., Rayo, M. F., Patterson, E. S., Yamokoski, T., Abdel-Rasoul, M., Allen, T. T., … Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2021). Perceptually Discriminating the Highest Priority Alarms Reduces Response Time: A Retrospective Pre-Post Study at Four Hospitals. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 001872082110328. doi: 10.1177/00187208211032870

Horwood, C. R., Moffatt-Bruce, S. D., Fitzgerald, M., & Rayo, M. F. (2018). A qualitative analysis of clinical decompensation in the surgical patient: Perceptions of nurses and physicians. Surgery, 164(6), 1311–1315. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.06.006

Horwood, C. R., Moffatt-Bruce, S. D., & Rayo, M. F. (2019). Continuous Cardiac Monitoring Policy Implementation: Three-year Sustained Decrease of Hospital Resource Utilization. In Structural Approaches to Address Issues in Patient Safety: Vol. 18 (pp. 159–171). Emerald Publishing Limited. doi: 10.1108/s1474-823120190000018007

Horwood, C. R., Rayo, M. F., Fitzgerald, M., Balkin, E. A., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2018, June 15). Gaps Between Alarm Capabilities and Decision-making Needs: An Observational Study of Detecting Patient Decompensation. 7.

Patterson, E. S., Rayo, M. F., Edworthy, J. R., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2021). Applying Human Factors Engineering to Address the Telemetry Alarm Problem in a Large Medical Center. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 001872082110188. doi: 10.1177/00187208211018883

Rayo, M. F. (2022). Implementation Systems That Support Resilient Performance:  Improving Anticipatory Recognition to Mitigate Risk of Patient Decompensation. In F. Rapport, R. Clay-Williams, & J. Braithwaite (Eds.), Key concepts in implementation science: Translation and Improvement in Medicine and Healthcare. UK: Routledge.

Rayo, M. F., Mansfield, J., Eiferman, D., Mignery, T., White, S., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2015). Implementing an institution-wide quality improvement policy to ensure appropriate use of continuous cardiac monitoring: a mixed-methods retrospective data analysis and direct observation study. BMJ Quality & Safety, bmjqs-2015-004137. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004137

Rayo, M. F., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2015). Alarm system management: evidence-based guidance encouraging direct measurement of informativeness to improve alarm response. BMJ Quality & Safety, 24(4), 282–286. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003373

Rayo, M. F., Patterson, E. S., Abdel-Rasoul, M., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. D. (2019). Using timbre to improve performance of larger auditory alarm sets. Ergonomics, 1–33. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2019.1676473