How a Culture of Fear in Medicine Shields Criminal Doctors From Justice
Experts warn that institutional fear and silence in healthcare allow criminal doctors to evade detection for years while whistleblowers stay ...
Tag: Patient Safety
Pakistani Nurses Know Infection Control Rules but Fail to Follow Them, Review Finds
A systematic review of 29 studies covering 3,383 Pakistani nurses finds that while 67 percent have adequate infection prevention knowledge ...
Nurses Reveal Why Neonatal IV Care Stays Reactive Instead of Proactive
A qualitative study of neonatal nurses in three Dutch intensive care units finds that vascular access decisions are made reactively ...
Sleep Inertia Hits Shift Nurses in Three Distinct Patterns, Study Finds
A new study of 519 Chinese shift nurses identifies three distinct sleep inertia profiles and shows that anxiety, fatigue, and ...
Virtual Review Board Brings New Alzheimer’s Drugs to Community Neurologists Safely
A Sutter Health virtual review board allowed general neurologists to safely prescribe and monitor amyloid-targeting Alzheimer's therapies in community settings, ...
Why Cancer Patients Fall for Online Misinformation: New Interview Study Reveals the Triggers
A qualitative interview study of cancer patients and caregivers in Saudi Arabia reveals that superficial search habits, trust in peer ...
Hidden Shortcuts: How Surgical Equipment Biases Skew AI in the Operating Room
Researchers found that AI models for identifying safe dissection zones in gallbladder surgery rely on tool positions and lighting direction ...
UK Unveils Sweeping 44-Point Blueprint for Regulating Healthcare AI
A JMIR analysis examines the UK National Commission's 44 recommendations for regulating healthcare AI, spanning life cycle oversight, shared safety ...
Ghanaian Nurses Back Sign Language but Few Use It at the Bedside
A study of 140 nurses and midwives at Kumasi South Hospital found that while over 96 percent consider sign language ...
Chatbot health advice fails invisibly, researchers warn
Researchers warn that harmful AI chatbot health advice leaves no trace for clinicians, regulators, or scientists to detect, and they ...
Deliberately Breaking Medical Devices: A Three-Method Test Could Make Hospital Technology Safer
Researchers propose a triangulated assessment paradigm combining deliberate misuse testing, heuristic evaluation, and simulated-use testing to uncover medical device safety ...
AI Medical Scribes Still Make Dangerous Errors in Surgical Notes, Study Finds
A controlled evaluation of eight ambient voice technologies found that 30 to 68 percent of AI-transcribed surgical records contained clinically ...
AI Joins the Safety Team: Language Models Tackle Root Cause Analysis in Radiation Oncology
A new proof-of-concept study shows that large language models can perform credible root cause analyses of radiation oncology incident reports, ...
Free meals and gifts from drug companies shape doctors’ prescribing, major review finds
A new Cochrane review of 93 studies finds that pharmaceutical marketing, including free meals and payments, leads doctors to prescribe ...
What Emergency Departments Tell Older Adults About Follow-Up Care Often Falls Short
A multisite content analysis finds that emergency department discharge instructions for older adults often fail to specify the purpose, provider, ...
Nurses’ Mindset and Support Systems Drive Success of Hospital-Wide Bed-Sharing Model
A survey of 718 Chinese nurses finds that perceived organisational support, psychological capital, and mentoring experience explain most of the ...
When Doctors and Pharmacists Miscommunicate, Patients Pay the Price, Thai Study Finds
A mixed-methods study of pharmacists in Thai Ministry of Public Health general hospitals finds that communication conflicts with physicians are ...
Oncology Nurses Weigh the Promise and Perils of Giving Chemotherapy at Home
A Swedish qualitative study of nine oncology nurses reveals cautious optimism about delivering antineoplastic cancer therapy in patients' homes, with ...
Seizure-Like Episode During Pacemaker Surgery Points to Rare Air Embolism Danger
A case report describes a pacemaker patient who developed seizure-like activity and acute hypoxia from suspected venous air embolism, highlighting ...
One in Thirty Hospital Deaths May Be Preventable, Landmark Review Finds
A retrospective review of 1,078 hospital deaths at Oslo University Hospital found three percent were preventable, but revealed that judgments ...
