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Structural Factors Underlying Medical Malpractice: From the Perspective of Social Science Experts and Medical Specialists [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Qualitative Research in Health Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Medical malpractice is generally attributed to the lack of individual competence of physicians, but from a sociological point of view, it is a problem that arises in a social context influenced by external factors and variables. The purpose
simin kazemi
doaj   +1 more source

Fatal pitfalls in newborn screening for mitochondrial trifunctional protein (MTP)/long-chain 3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency

open access: yesOrphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2018
Background Mitochondrial trifunctional protein (MTP) and long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) deficiency are long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders with particularly high morbidity and mortality.
Amelie S. Lotz-Havla   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Part-time versus full-time occlusion therapy for treatment of amblyopia: A meta-analysis

open access: yesJournal of Current Ophthalmology, 2017
Purpose: To compare full-time occlusion (FTO) and part-time occlusion (PTO) therapy in the treatment of amblyopia, with the secondary aim of evaluating the minimum number of hours of part-time patching required for maximal effect from occlusion. Methods:
Negareh Yazdani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Usability in the Reduction of Prescribing Errors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Some hospitals have implemented computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems to reduce the medical error rates. However, research in this area has been very limited, especially regarding the impact of CPOE use on the reduction of prescribing errors.
Elhissi, Abdelbary   +4 more
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Ranking Significant Discrepancies in Clinical Reports

open access: yes, 2020
Medical errors are a major public health concern and a leading cause of death worldwide. Many healthcare centers and hospitals use reporting systems where medical practitioners write a preliminary medical report and the report is later reviewed, revised,
A Yates   +5 more
core   +1 more source

“Double Hit” Homozygous Mutations for Two Different Rare Inborn Errors of Metabolism: A Burden for Countries with High Prevalences of Consangineous Marriages

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Research, 2018
Inborn errors of metabolism comprise a broad range of genetic diseases of which most are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Although being rare, there is a significant increase in their rate especially in countries where consanguineous marriages
Asburçe Olgaç   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the effective factors for reporting medical errors among midwives working at teaching hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

open access: yesIranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2017
Background: Recently, evaluation and accreditation system of hospitals has had a special emphasis on reporting malpractices and sharing errors or lessons learnt from errors, but still due to lack of promotion of systematic approach for solving problems ...
Fahimeh Khorasani, Marjan Beigi
doaj   +1 more source

Effective Medical Code Prediction via Label Internal Alignment [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
The clinical notes are usually typed into the system by physicians. They are typically required to be marked by standard medical codes, and each code represents a diagnosis or medical treatment procedure. Annotating these notes is time consuming and prone to error.
arxiv  

A Framework for Assurance of Medication Safety using Machine Learning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Medication errors continue to be the leading cause of avoidable patient harm in hospitals. This paper sets out a framework to assure medication safety that combines machine learning and safety engineering methods. It uses safety analysis to proactively identify potential causes of medication error, based on expert opinion.
arxiv  

Oversampling errors in multimodal medical imaging are due to the Gibbs effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
To analyse multimodal 3-dimensional medical images, interpolation is required for resampling which - unavoidably - introduces an interpolation error. In this work we consider three segmented 3-dimensional images resampled with three different neuroimaging software tools for comparing undersampling and oversampling strategies and to identify where the ...
arxiv   +1 more source

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