Scientific studies of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in healthcare have been the subject of intense criticism—both in research publications and in the media.1–3 Early validations of predictive ...

Since the 18th century, bedside rounds have been a fundamental component of clinical care, serving as a setting where clinical information is gathered, processed and shared.1 This tradition highlights ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’ - US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. Well-being was brought into clearer focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The 1999 Institute of Medicine report raised public awareness of the frequency and cost of adverse drug events in medicine. In response, in November 2000 a coalition of healthcare purchasers announced ...

Background Quality improvement (QI) efforts have become widespread in healthcare, however there is significant variability in their success. Differences in context are thought to be responsible for ...

Objectives To document the burden of in-hospital falls and fractures, and to identify factors that may increase the risk of these events. Design A retrospective cohort analysis Setting The study was ...

Healthcare workers could learn much from the engineering and civil aviation industries about safety management. The medical community is becoming more open to learning safety lessons from other ...

Background: The potential severity of wrong patient/procedure/site of surgery and the view that these events are avoidable, make the prevention of such errors a priority. An intervention was set up to ...

Background Diagnostic errors have been attributed to reasoning flaws caused by cognitive biases. While experiments have shown bias to cause errors, physicians of similar expertise differed in ...

Do good without fear and tell the truth. For Henry Beecher, this was both wisdom and paradox. Reality and perception are not always the same. Beecher was born in Peck, Kansas in 1904 with the birth ...

Diagnosis is likely the most complex cognitive tasks that humans face. There are, roughly, only 200 symptoms but over 10,000 diseases, and each disease may present in different ways, depending on the ...