Development of an ontology to model medical errors, information needs, and the clinical communication space
Medical errors are common, costly and often preventable. Work in understanding the proximal causes of medical errors demonstrates that systems failures predispose to adverse clinical events. Most of these systems failures are due to lack of appropriate information at the appropriate time during the...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2001) vom: 11., Seite 672-6 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
| Zusammenfassung: | Medical errors are common, costly and often preventable. Work in understanding the proximal causes of medical errors demonstrates that systems failures predispose to adverse clinical events. Most of these systems failures are due to lack of appropriate information at the appropriate time during the course of clinical care. Problems with clinical communication are common proximal causes of medical errors. We have begun a project designed to measure the impact of wireless computing on medical errors. We report here on our efforts to develop an ontology representing the intersection of medical errors, information needs and the communication space. We will use this ontology to support the collection, storage and interpretation of project data. The ontology's formal representation of the concepts in this novel domain will help guide the rational deployment of our informatics interventions. A real-life scenario is evaluated using the ontology in order to demonstrate its utility |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 24.05.2002 Date Revised 13.11.2018 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1531-605X |