Multiple factors including nurses' experience and assignments determined how fast they responded when monitoring alarms were triggered in a children's hospital, a video analysis found. Nurses were more likely to respond to physiologic monitor alarms when they had less than one year of experience, when there was a 1 to 1 nursing assignment or, when prior alarms requiring intervention had sounded, reported Christopher P. Bonafide, MD, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues.

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