5 articles on patient safety for medical practices
Sepsis kills more Americans than any other in-hospital condition, and many of the AI tools built to catch it early are backfiring by burying clinicians in false alarms. Here is why sepsis prediction is one of the hardest problems in clinical AI, what went wrong with widely deployed models, and the engineering and workflow approach that is proven to fix it.
Families call in crisis at night because the change that caused it went unnoticed for two days. How to track symptoms between visits so the team can act in daylight.
The weeks after birth are when serious complications appear and when contact with the clinic drops to nothing. How to check in safely, with emergency signs escalated by fixed rules.
A critical result comes back, the ordering doctor is off shift, and the handover is a sticky note. How to build follow-up that escalates until a real person acknowledges it.
Most avoidable readmissions are still preventable 48 hours after discharge, which is exactly when nobody is checking. How to check in, catch medication problems, and escalate warning signs.