INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to develop a semiautomated approach to screening cases that describe hazards associated with the electronic health record (EHR) from a mandatory, population-based patient safety reporting system.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In times of steadily increasing numbers of administered drugs, the detection of adverse drug events (ADEs) is an important aspect of improving patient safety. At present only about 1-13% of detected ADEs are reported. Raising the number of reported A...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Over the past two decades, there have seen an ever-increasing amount of patient safety reports yet the capacity of extracting useful information from the reports remains limited. Classification of patient safety reports is the first step of performin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Automated identification provides an efficient way to categorize patient safety incidents. Previous studies have focused on identifying single incident types relating to a specific patient safety problem, e.g., clinical handover. In reality, there ar...
Effective teamwork in the operating theatre is important for safe patient care. In robotic surgery, the surgeon is physically separated from the operating theatre team, which could potentially have an impact on teamwork. With robotic surgery increasi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
The merging of the human world and the information technology world is advancing at a pace, even for those with dementia there are many useful smart 'phone applications including reminders, family pictures display, GPS functions and video communicati...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2016
Increasingly, critical incident reports are used as a means to increase patient safety and quality of care. The entire potential of these sources of experiential knowledge remains often unconsidered since retrieval and analysis is difficult and time-...