Academic Articles & Research Papers

Maintaining routine inpatient safety under prolonged armed conflict: an institutional case study of a frontline civilian hospital.

Relationship between patient safety culture and staff motivation in Tunisian operating rooms: a cross-sectional study.

From concept to practice: Patient safety culture and patient safety climate in dentistry.

Refined Exclusion in Medical AI: Data Justice and Patient Safety Governance.

Exploring Surgeons' Perceptions of the Role of Simulation in Surgical Education: A Needs Assessment

Introduction: The last two decades have seen the adoption of simulation-based surgical education in various disciplines. The current study’s goal was to perform a needs assessment using the results to inform future curricular planning and n...

Health Technologies: Transforming Scientific Knowledge into Human Health

Health technologies are commonly associated with medical devices, digital health platforms, robotics, and artificial intelligence. However, this perspective captures only the most visible dimension of a much broader concept. This study exam...

Supporting the spread of health technology in community services

Health technology has been proposed as a route to financial savings and improved patient safety for many years within the NHS. Nurses have a key role to play in transforming care through such technology but, despite high-level endorsement, ...

Medical Informatics and Opportunity for Anesthesiologists.

This is the fifth year that we are organizing the anesthesia symposium/debate during the annual meeting of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists. The member of the symposium consists a team from China lead by Dr. Buwei Yu, the immediate ...

The influence of patient characteristics on the alarm rate in intensive care units: a retrospective cohort study

Abstract Intensive care units (ICU) are often overflooded with alarms from monitoring devices which constitutes a hazard to both staff and patients. To date, the suggested solutions to excessive monitoring alarms have remained on a research...

Healthcare Management using Blockchain

Healthcare management using blockchain technology refers to the use of blockchain to improve the efficiency, security and privacy of healthcare data management. Blockchain enables the creation of a decentralized, tamper-proof database that ...

Visualizing healthcare system variability and resilience: a longitudinal study of patient movements following discharge from a Swedish psychiatric clinic

Abstract Background As healthcare becomes increasingly complex, new methods are needed to identify weaknesses in the system that could lead to increased risk. Traditionally, the focus for patient safety is to study incident reports and adve...

Why do healthcare professionals fail to escalate as per the early warning system (EWS) protocol? A qualitative evidence synthesis of the barriers and facilitators of escalation

Abstract Background Early warning systems (EWSs) are used to assist clinical judgment in the detection of acute deterioration to avoid or reduce adverse events including unanticipated cardiopulmonary arrest, admission to the intensive care ...

Nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure: A scoping review

Objectives: This study aimed to review and summarize the studies of nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure. Methods: The review was performed using Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework....

How Demographic and Academic Factors Relate to Critical Thinking Skills among Indonesian Nursing Students

Background: Critical thinking is a core competency for nursing students because it supports clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and patient safety. However, evidence on critical thinking among nursing students in Indonesia remains l...

Zum Einsatz von Informationstechnologie zur Verbesserung der Arzneimitteltherapiesicherheit (Memorandum AMTS-IT)

[english] Information technology in health care has a clear potential to improve quality and efficiency of health care, especially in the area of medication processes. On the other side, existing studies show possible adverse effects on pat...

Repurposing a commercial artificial intelligence vision platform for automated surgical instrument identification: a proof-of-concept study

Abstract Background Retained surgical items are classified as never events but continue to occur, and the count meant to prevent them is often recorded as correct even when an item is retained. Computer vision could provide an independent c...

Perceived Electronic Health Record System Success and Its Associations With Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, and Operational Efficiency in a Saudi Tertiary Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

Achieving health equity through healthcare technology: Perspective from India

India aims to provide universal health coverage to all individuals and communities thus ensuring accessibility, promotive, curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative health services to all. Healthcare technologies play a critical ...

The use of artificial intelligence in anesthesiology: Attitudes and ethical concerns of anesthesiologists

Background: Existing studies on anesthesiologists’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) leave a global understanding underexplored. This cross-sectional study aims to investigate Turkish anesthesiologists’ attitudes toward AI, exam...