A medication error is an inadvertent failure in the drug therapy process that can cause serious harm to patients by increasing morbidity and mortality and are associated with significant economic costs to the healthcare system. Medication reconciliat...
Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association
Dec 15, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) may revolutionize health care, providing solutions that range from enhancing diagnostic accuracy to personalizing treatment plans. However, its rapid and largely unregulated integration into medicine raises eth...
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Dec 15, 2024
Diagnostic errors in health care pose significant risks to patient safety and are disturbingly common. In the emergency department (ED), the chaotic and high-pressure environment increases the likelihood of these errors, as emergency clinicians must ...
Patient safety advocates identify concerns for the impact of AI on patient safety. Patients identified the following 4 main areas that AI developers, regulatory bodies, and clinical users of AI are asked to consider: data integrity and bias, efficacy...
International journal of technology assessment in health care
Nov 21, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based health technologies (AIHTs) have already been applied in clinical practice. However, there is currently no standardized framework for evaluating them based on the principles of health technology assessme...
International journal of population data science
Nov 20, 2024
BACKGROUND: Maternity care is a complex system involving treatments and interactions between patients, healthcare providers, and the care environment. To enhance patient safety and outcomes, it is crucial to understand the human factors (e.g. individ...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in pharmacovigilance. However, the use of artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance raises ethical concerns related to fairness, non-discrimination, compliance, and responsibility as the central e...
BACKGROUND: Diagnostic errors are an underappreciated cause of preventable mortality in hospitals and pose a risk for severe patient harm and increase hospital length of stay.
BACKGROUND: The use of technologies has had a significant impact on patient safety and the quality of care and has increased globally. In the literature, it has been reported that people die annually due to adverse events (AEs), and various methods e...
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 incide...
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