Table 5.

Nurse-reported alarm burden by hospital characteristics

	% and N of nurses who frequently or occasionally…
	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*	P†	%	N*	P†	%	N*	P†	%	N*	P†
Work environment
Good	79.8	575	0.001	71.5	514	0.001	42.1	299	<0.001	39.6	281	<0.001
Mixed	84.7	1922		75.4	1705		55.4	1250		45.4	1019
Poor	80.9	765		79.2	751		65.4	615		52.3	493
Proportion of nurses reporting not enough staff to get work done
0%–33%	80.8	1146	0.008	70.3	995	<0.001	45.0	631	<0.001	42.7	596	0.001
34%–66%	82.9	1191		77.1	1105		57.9	828		46.3	660
67%–100%	85.6	925		80.6	870		65.6	705		50.0	537
Teaching status
Nonteaching	84.0	1176	0.024	77.7	1086	<0.001	56.4	784	<0.001	46.8	650	0.017
Minor	84.4	860		77.9	794		61.1	620		49.0	494
Major	80.8	1226		72.1	1090		50.6	760		43.4	649
Size
Small (≤100 beds)	69.2	36	0.025	73.1	38	0.057	44.2	23	0.008	53.9	28	0.096
Medium (101–250 beds)	83.9	594		79.2	559		60.2	425		49.2	344
Large (>250 beds)	83.0	2606		75.0	2349		54.7	1704		45.4	1409

*May not sum to total due to missing.

†P-value for χ² test.