AIMC Topic: Quality Improvement

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Detection of clinically important colorectal surgical site infection using Bayesian network.

The Journal of surgical research
BACKGROUND: Despite extensive efforts to monitor and prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), real-time surveillance of clinical practice has been sparse and expensive or nonexistent. However, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (i...

Scotland's knowledge network: a progress report on Knowledge into Action.

Scottish medical journal
Launched in 2012, Knowledge into Action is the national knowledge management strategy for the health and social care workforce in Scotland. It is transforming the role of the national digital knowledge service--NHS Education for Scotlands' Knowledge ...

How to build up the actionable knowledge base: the role of 'best fit' framework synthesis for studies of improvement in healthcare.

BMJ quality & safety
Increasing recognition of the role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare offers the prospect of capitalising upon, and consolidating, actionable lessons from synthesis of improvement projects and initiatives. We propose that informed ...

Reducing the incidence of oxyhaemoglobin desaturation during rapid sequence intubation in a paediatric emergency department.

BMJ quality & safety
OBJECTIVES: Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is the standard for definitive airway management in emergency medicine. In a video-based study of RSI in a paediatric emergency department (ED), we reported a high degree of process variation and frequent a...

An Evaluation of Patient Safety Event Report Categories Using Unsupervised Topic Modeling.

Methods of information in medicine
OBJECTIVE: Patient safety event data repositories have the potential to dramatically improve safety if analyzed and leveraged appropriately. These safety event reports often consist of both structured data, such as general event type categories, and ...

Imaging-based Surgical Site Infection Detection Using Artificial Intelligence.

Annals of surgery
OBJECTIVE: To develop an artificial intelligence-based pipeline to assess and triage patient-submitted postoperative wound images.

Validation of the ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator for patients with paraoesophageal hernias undergoing robotic repair.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) American College of Surgeons (ACS) risk calculator is a validated method of predicting postoperative complications that was recently updated to a machine-learning structure. The ob...

Evaluation of an Ambient Artificial Intelligence Documentation Platform for Clinicians.

JAMA network open
IMPORTANCE: The increase of electronic health record (EHR) work negatively impacts clinician well-being. One potential solution is incorporating an ambient artificial intelligence (AI) documentation platform.

Evaluation of AI Summaries on Interdisciplinary Understanding of Ophthalmology Notes.

JAMA ophthalmology
IMPORTANCE: Specialized ophthalmology terminology limits comprehension for nonophthalmology clinicians and professionals, hindering interdisciplinary communication and patient care. The clinical implementation of large language models (LLMs) into pra...