Safety improvement requires data: the case for automation and artificial intelligence during incident reporting.

Journal: British journal of anaesthesia
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Abstract

The reporting of incidents has a long association with safety in healthcare and anaesthesia, yet many incident reporting systems substantially under-report critical events. Better understanding the underlying reasons for low levels of critical incident reporting can allow such factors to be addressed systematically to arrive at a better reporting culture. However, new forms of automation in anaesthesia also provide powerful new approaches to be adopted in the future.

Authors

  • Craig S Webster
    Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.