the.com/alarm fatigue
the boy who cried wolf, but the wolf is a hospital monitor and it cries every four minutes.
means a state where people exposed to too many alerts start ignoring or delaying responses to all of them, including the real ones.
from named and studied in nursing and ICU settings starting in the 1980s, once hospitals wired patients to monitors that beeped for everything from cardiac arrest to a loose sensor.
hospital scalesome ICUs generate hundreds of alarms per patient daily
true positive rateas few as 1 in 100 alarms need action
beyond hospitalsnow applies to app notifications and security systems too
deadly outcomelinked to real patient deaths from ignored alerts