AIMC Topic: Quality Improvement

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What are the main patient safety concerns of healthcare stakeholders: a mixed-method study of Web-based text.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVES: Various healthcare stakeholders define quality of care in different ways. Public policy could advocate all these concerns. This study was conducted to identify the main themes on patient safety of stakeholders expressed before and after t...

A machine-learning method for improving crash injury severity analysis: a case study of work zone crashes in Cairo, Egypt.

International journal of injury control and safety promotion
The quality of vehicular collision data is crucial for studying the relationship between injury severity and collision factors. Misclassified injury severity data in the crash dataset, however, may cause inaccurate parameter estimates and consequentl...

Opportunities for machine learning to improve surgical ward safety.

American journal of surgery
BACKGROUND: Delayed recognition of decompensation and failure-to-rescue on surgical wards are major sources of preventable harm. This review assimilates and critically evaluates available evidence and identifies opportunities to improve surgical ward...

Artificial intelligence outperforms human students in conducting neurosurgical audits.

Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
OBJECTIVES: Neurosurgical audits are an important part of improving the safety, efficiency and quality of care but require considerable resources, time, and funding. To that end, the advent of the Artificial Intelligence-based algorithms offered a no...

[Methods of artificial intelligence and their application in imaging diagnostics].

Magyar onkologia
Artificial intelligence is a dynamically evolving methodology and, due to its large number of methods, its appearance becomes more important not only in industry but also in all disciplines. Diagnostic instrument manufacturers have realized relativel...

Mixed-integer optimization approach to learning association rules for unplanned ICU transfer.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
After admission to emergency department (ED), patients with critical illnesses are transferred to intensive care unit (ICU) due to unexpected clinical deterioration occurrence. Identifying such unplanned ICU transfers is urgently needed for medical p...

Pelvic lymph node dissection at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: Assessing utilization and nodal metastases within a statewide quality improvement consortium.

Urologic oncology
PURPOSE: Several guidelines recommend pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) only when lymph node involvement (LN+) is >2%. Individual surgeon use of PLND is not well-known. We sought to examine variability...