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Developing a similarity searching module for patient safety event reporting system using semantic similarity measures

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017
Background The most important knowledge in the field of patient safety is regarding the prevention and reduction of patient safety events (PSE) during treatment and care.
Hong Kang, Yang Gong
doaj   +1 more source

Medical errors: Mandatory reporting, voluntary reporting, or both? [PDF]

open access: yes
This work evaluates policy recommendations on medical error reporting systems presented in, To err is human, a report published by the Institute of Medicine.
Grepperud, Sverre
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Mitigation of Preventable Medical Errors via the use of Human Resources and Human Factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss historical and current rates of preventable medical errors (PMEs), their causes, and methods used to reduce them.
Creel, Callender
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Tumor clusters with divergent inflammation and human retroelement expression determine the clinical outcome of patients with serous ovarian cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Analysis of treatment‐naïve high‐grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) and control tissues for ERVs, LINE‐1 (L1), inflammation, and immune checkpoints identified five clusters with diverse patient recurrence‐free survivals. An inflammation score was calculated and correlated with retroelement expression, where one novel cluster (Triple‐I) with high ...
Laura Glossner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pitfalls of counterfactual thinking in medical practice: preventing errors by using more functional reference points

open access: yesJournal of Public Health Research, 2013
Background. Counterfactual thinking involves mentally simulating alternatives to reality. The current article reviews literature pertaining to the relevance counterfactual thinking has for the quality of medical decision making.
John V. Petrocelli
doaj   +1 more source

Female residents experiencing medical errors in general internal medicine: a qualitative study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND: Doctors, especially doctors-in-training such as residents, make errors. They have to face the consequences even though today's approach to errors emphasizes systemic factors.
Gachoud, D., Mankaka, C.O., Waeber, G.
core   +3 more sources

EGFR‐STAT3 activation provides a therapeutic rationale for targeting aggressive ETV1‐positive prostate cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cotargeting EGFR and STAT3 with Erlotinib and TTI‐101 impairs both 2D and 3D growth of ETV1‐overexpressing prostate cancer cells by disrupting a self‐sustaining ETV1–EGFR positive feedback loop that promotes EGFR and STAT3 expression and phosphorylation (activation).
Elsa Gomes Paiva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician Income Prediction Errors: Sources and Implications for Behavior [PDF]

open access: yes
Although income expectations play a central role in many economic decisions, little is known about the sources of income prediction errors and how agents respond to income shocks.
Nicholas S. Souleles, Sean Nicholson
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Diagnostic Medical Errors: Patient\u27s Perspectives on a Pervasive Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction. The Institute of Medicine defines diagnostic error as the failure to establish an accurate or timely explanation for the patient\u27s health problem(s), or effectively communicate the explanation to the patient. To our knowledge, no studies
Couperus, Cody J   +7 more
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