Table 3

Nurse-reported alarm burden by patient safety and quality of care

	Total N=3986		% and N of nurses who frequently or occasionally…
	Total N=3986		Feel overwhelmed by the number of alarms N=3262			Delay response to alarms because can’t step away from another patient/task N=2970			Encounter situations where a patient needs urgent attention, but no one responds to alarm N=2164			Have work interrupted or delayed by false, non-actionable or non-urgent alarms N=1793
	%	N	%*	N	P†	%*	N	P†	%*	N	P†	%*	N	P†
Patient safety grade‡
Good (A/B)	49.8	1986	77.7	1520	<0.001	65.9	1282	<0.001	38.4	742	<0.001	38.0	733	<0.001
Poor (C/D/F)	50.2	2000	87.9	1742	<0.001	85.2	1688	<0.001	72.0	1422	<0.001	53.9	1060	<0.001
Overall quality of nursing care‡
Excellent/good	73.1	2913	80.7	2318	<0.001	72.0	2061	<0.001	46.3	1320	<0.001	41.7	1186	<0.001
Poor/fair	26.9	1073	88.8	944	<0.001	85.4	909	<0.001	79.9	844	<0.001	57.6	607	<0.001

*Denominators used to calculate percentages differed from ‘Total’ column due to exclusion of missing.
†P-value for χ² test.
‡Nurse-reported patient safety grade and quality of nursing care for their hospital.