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Ensuring equitable access to medical and long-term care (LTC) is critical to enable older people to maintain their health and well-being even after they undergo a decline in their intrinsic capacity. Methods We used data from five waves of the National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, conducted...
AI in Chinese healthcare has surged in categories such as cancer treatment, preoperative planning, lesion detection...
Exploring patient and public participation in the STANDING Together initiative for AI in healthcare Public members of STANDING Together reflect on their experience in developing standards to tackle bias in health technologies that use artificial intelligence. ...
Medical bill coding errors can be incredibly frustrating. These occur when a healthcare provider assigns an incorrect code to a diagnosis or procedure, resulting in incorrect billing and inaccurate reimbursement. According to this recent report, medical billing errors are a major issue in the...
and has become sensitive to medical errors, full disclosure, and apology. Consensus exists among hospital health systems and physicians, as well as patients and their families, that patients should be told if they are injured by medical care with full and truthful disclosure appropriate in all ...
Healthcare Serial Killing Miller (2014a) synthesizes earlier work to categorize SK as custodial, delusional, utilitarian, or sadistic in their motivation (Table1). These are not exclusive categories and can overlap, with HSK typically falling under, but not limited to the “custodial” label. Ot...
Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons. Ann Surg. 2010;251(6):995-1000. doi:10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bfdab3PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref See More About Health Policy Sleep Medicine Professional Well-being Health Care Safety open access Trending Crowdsourced Feedback to Improve ...
1-4 In addition, medical errors are a major source of morbidity5 and account for billions of dollars in financial losses to health care systems every year.6-9 Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among physicians,10,11 and several studies have investigated the associations between physician ...
Healthcare systems are complex and challenging for all stakeholders, but artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed various fields, including healthcare, with the potential to improve patient care and quality of life. Rapid AI advancements can revoluti