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Mashup Score: 2Patients' perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia. | PSNet - 13 hour(s) ago
Women patients experience medical gaslighting wherein clinicians, policy makers, or the public do not believe their lived experiences. This article details more than 400 accounts submitted by women who were harmed by transvaginal mesh, and how their harm was exacerbated by dismissals by their physicians and regulatory bodies.
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Mashup Score: 2Application of trigger tools for detecting adverse drug events in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet - 14 hour(s) ago
Adverse drug events (ADE) are common in older adults. This systematic review identified 12 trigger tools for detecting ADE in older adults. Trigger tools designed or adapted for the older adult population performed better than those designed for the general population. Most studies assessed performance using positive predictive value (PPV), but there was no consensus of what constitutes a good or poor PPV.
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Mashup Score: 2Comparative evaluation of LLMs in clinical oncology. | PSNet - 15 hour(s) ago
Large language models (LLM) are being developed to improve diagnostic accuracy. This study compared five LLMs on their accuracy of oncology diagnoses. Accuracy ranged from no better than random chance to similar to resident physicians. Notably, all models exhibited poor performance on women-predominant malignancies, suggesting a bias in training materials. This highlights the importance of partnerships between developers and medical professionals to co-develop reliable training sets.
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Mashup Score: 2Entangled in complexity: an ethnographic study of organizational adaptability and safe care transitions for patients with complex care needs. | PSNet - 16 hour(s) ago
Transitions of care are a vulnerable time for all patients and especially older adults with complex care needs. Utilizing document review, observations, and interviews, this study describes how inconsistencies in timing and precision at the time of transition put patients at risk. Examples include early discharge from hospital due to crowding, insufficient assessment of activities of daily living, and incomplete transfer of information. A safe care transition pathway describes critical steps to ensure safe transitions.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Women patients experience medical gaslighting wherein clinicians, policy makers, or the public do not believe their lived experiences. This article details more than 400 accounts submitted by women who were harmed by transvaginal mesh, and how their harm was exacerbated by dismissals by their physicians and regulatory bodies.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Application of trigger tools for detecting adverse drug events in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet - 2 day(s) ago
Adverse drug events (ADE) are common in older adults. This systematic review identified 12 trigger tools for detecting ADE in older adults. Trigger tools designed or adapted for the older adult population performed better than those designed for the general population. Most studies assessed performance using positive predictive value (PPV), but there was no consensus of what constitutes a good or poor PPV.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Comparative evaluation of LLMs in clinical oncology. | PSNet - 2 day(s) ago
Large language models (LLM) are being developed to improve diagnostic accuracy. This study compared five LLMs on their accuracy of oncology diagnoses. Accuracy ranged from no better than random chance to similar to resident physicians. Notably, all models exhibited poor performance on women-predominant malignancies, suggesting a bias in training materials. This highlights the importance of partnerships between developers and medical professionals to co-develop reliable training sets.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Transitions of care are a vulnerable time for all patients and especially older adults with complex care needs. Utilizing document review, observations, and interviews, this study describes how inconsistencies in timing and precision at the time of transition put patients at risk. Examples include early discharge from hospital due to crowding, insufficient assessment of activities of daily living, and incomplete transfer of information. A safe care transition pathway describes critical steps to ensure safe transitions.
Source: psnet.ahrq.govCategories: General Medicine News, PayerTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Supporting error management and safety climate in ambulatory care practices: the CIRSforte study. | PSNet - 3 day(s) ago
Patient safety in ambulatory care settings is receiving increasing attention. This study evaluated an error management and safety climate intervention implemented across 184 ambulatory practices in Germany. The intervention included email newsletters on error management, e-learning modules to improve team engagement, and interdisciplinary workshops to discuss critical incidents. Survey feedback identified significant improvements in safety climate as well as improvements to incident reporting and learning systems.
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Mashup Score: 2
Unprofessional behavior negatively impacts teamwork, safety culture, and patient safety. This study analyzed 1,310 reports of unprofessional behavior across eight Australian hospitals between 2017-2020. The researchers found that three in ten reports indicated a risk to patient safety, such as interruptions, poor handover communication, and a lack of adherence to hospital policy or protocol.
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Check out #AHRQ PSNet featured research exploring women’s experiences being harmed by transvaginal mesh. #patientsafety https://t.co/1J1oVbOTyj https://t.co/QeLaUIlwKN