The Patient Safety Digest

Patient Safety, Alert Fatigue, Artificial Intelligence

Alert Fatigue: Refining Accuracy to Reduce Burden

Today’s healthcare technologies help streamline workflows, improve the patient experience, and...

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Opioid Dependency, Artificial Intelligence

Recent data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicates 21-29% of patients who receive...

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Patient Safety, Medication error, Artificial Intelligence

Every year there is one week set on the calendar that we look forward to recognizing all year long:...

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Patient Safety, Alert Fatigue, Opioid Dependency, Artificial Intelligence, Risk Mitigation

Not long ago, there was extensive hype around AI (artificial intelligence) and the potential...

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Patient Safety, Medication error

Are you crazy?!? This IV Calcium order is totally wrong! Are you trying to kill the patient?!? The...

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Patient Safety, Risk Mitigation

In the old days, prescribing was easy. I would write down the patient’s name and drug information...

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Patient Safety, Risk Mitigation

Understanding Prescription Errors Caused by Work Overload and COVID-19 Physician fatigue and other...

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