Table 3.

Effects of intelligent management in included studies.

	Allan et al. [29]	Burdick et al. [30]	Cvach et al. [31]	McFarlane et al. [32]	Varisco et al. [33]	Ruppel et al. [34]	Pater et al. [35]
Type of alarms
SpO2 alarm					NA↓, DA↓
Heart rate alarm						NA↓, DA↓
Respiratory rate alarm						NA↓, DA↓
Arterial alarm						NA↓, DA↓
General alarm	NA↓		NA↓, DA↓	RT↓			NA↓
High priority alarm					NA↓, DA↓
Medium priority alarm					DA↓	NA↓
Solo alarm		RT↓
Parallel alarms		AI↑, RT↓			DA↓
Questionnaire
Sensitivity to alarms			Per↑
Changes in patient conditions			Per↑	Per↑
The usefulness of alarm notification system	Per↑		Per↑	Per↑	Per↑	Per↑
Alarm load disturbs workflow						Per↓
Ignore alarms in an urgent situation						Per↓
Nuisance alarms disrupt patient care							Per↓
Workload		Per↓
Perform different tasks
Important problems with patients’ status and care delivery				RT↓
Triage unfiltered alarms				RT↓

Notes: AI = accuracy of identification. DA = duration of alarms. NA = number of alarms. Per = perception. RT = response time.