Promoting patient safety is a national priority. To evaluate interventions for reducing medical
errors and adverse event, effective methods for detecting such events are required. This …

Context: Although patient safety is a major problem, most health care organizations rely on
spontaneous reporting, which detects only a small minority of adverse events. As a result …

Objective: To determine whether natural language processing (NLP) can effectively detect
adverse events defined in the New York Patient Occurrence Reporting and Tracking System …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

Patients can be immunocompromised from a diverse range of disease and treatment factors,
including malignancies, autoimmune disorders and their treatments, and organ and stem …

BACKGROUND: Studies of the accuracy and completeness of handwritten anesthesia
records demonstrate deficiencies in documentation, suggesting that the quality of …

The number of operating rooms and intensive care departments equipped with a clinical
information system (CIS) is rapidly expanding. Amongst the putative advantages of such an …

Computer-based systems can detect underreported adverse events. We hypothesized that a
system could be designed to detect potential or unreported cases of transfusion-related …

Abstract Introduction Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, a core competency
identified by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, carries importance …

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a potentially life-threatening condition that includes both
deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. We sought to improve detection and …