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 ...
Tag: patient safety
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 ...
Profit Before Patients: Study Ties For-Profit Hospital Care to Higher Death Rates and Nurse Shortages
A large Penn Nursing study of more than 1.17 million patients found that for-profit hospitals had higher mortality and readmission ...
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 ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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