the.com/alarm fatigue
the sound that cries wolf so often, nobody looks up when it's real.
means desensitization to alerts after being bombarded with so many that the brain stops treating them as urgent, even the ones that matter.
from coined in nursing and hospital safety literature, where bedside monitors can beep hundreds of times a shift, most for nothing clinically significant.
hospital beepsup to 350 alarms per patient per day
false alarm rateover 85 percent are non-actionable
joint commission flagnamed a national patient safety priority in 2013