Patient Monitoring and Alarm Management Research Group

Goal

Our vision is a Charité in which patient care and safety inside and outside the hospital is augmented in a patient- and user-centered way through the use of innovative monitoring and alarming technologies, thereby improving patient outcomes and reducing the workload for staff.

Description

Our focus is on a holistic approach and includes the following aspects: User-centered requirements analysis (qualitative research); descriptive data analysis (e.g., of patient monitoring alerts); machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence technologies to predict events (e.g., medical interventions following a monitoring alert); and implementation science (translation of results into routine clinical practice).

Projects

INALO Intelligent alarm optimizer for intensive care units

SYBAL Systematic bibliometric analysis of nursing authors in alarm research

alarmZen Data Driven ICU Alarm Management

SARPI Staff Acceptance of Remote Patient Monitoring in Intensive Care Medicine

LeKIM Educational Programs on the Topic of AI in Medicine

Selected publications

Poncette, A.-S., Wunderlich, M. M., Spies, C., Heeren, P., Vorderwülbecke, G., Salgado, E., Kastrup, M., Feufel, M. A., & Balzer, F. (2021). Patient Monitoring Alarms in an Intensive Care Unit: Observational Study With Do-It-Yourself Instructions. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(5), e26494. https://doi.org/10.2196/26494
Wunderlich MM, Amende-Wolf S, Poncette A, Krampe H, Kruppa J, Spies C, Balzer F (2021). Ein deutschsprachiger Fragebogen zur Messung der Alarmmüdigkeit bei Pflegekräften und Ärzt:innen auf Intensivstationen [Konferenzbeitrag]. 21. Kongress der Deutschen Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin e.V., Hamburg, Deutschland.
Chromik J, Klopfenstein SAI, Pfitzner B, Sinno ZC, Arnrich B, Balzer F, Poncette AS. Computational Approaches to Alleviate Alarm Fatigue, IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (RBME) [Manuscript submitted]
Poncette, A.-S., Mosch, L., Spies, C., Schmieding, M., Schiefenhövel, F., Krampe, H., & Balzer, F. (2020). Improvements in Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(6), e19091. https://doi.org/10.2196/19091
Poncette, A.-S., Spies, C., Mosch, L., Schieler, M., Weber-Carstens, S., Krampe, H., & Balzer, F. (2019). Clinical Requirements of Future Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Qualitative Study. JMIR Medical Informatics, 7(2), e13064. https://doi.org/10.2196/13064