AIMC Topic: Risk Management

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Can Staff Distinguish Falls: Experimental Hypothesis Verification Using Japanese Incident Reports and Natural Language Processing.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Falls are generally classified into two groups in clinical settings in Japan: falls from the same level and falls from one level to another. We verified whether clinical staff could distinguish between these two types of falls by comparing 3,078 free...

Enhancing Patient Safety Event Reporting by K-nearest Neighbor Classifier.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Data quality was placed as a major reason for the low utility of patient safety event reporting systems. A pressing need in improving data quality has advanced recent research focus in data entry associated with human factors. The debate on structure...

On Building an Ontological Knowledge Base for Managing Patient Safety Events.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Over the past decade, improving healthcare quality and safety through patient safety event reporting systems has drawn much attention. Unfortunately, such systems are suffering from low data quality, inefficient data entry and ineffective information...

Automated Classification of Clinical Incident Types.

Studies in health technology and informatics
We consider the task of automatic classification of clinical incident reports using machine learning methods. Our data consists of 5448 clinical incident reports collected from the Incident Information Management System used by 7 hospitals in the sta...