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Development of an Ontology to Model Medical Errors, Information Needs, and the Clinical Communication Space

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An ontology representing the intersection of medical errors, information needs and the communication space is developed and a real-life scenario is evaluated using the ontology to demonstrate its utility.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.The article was published on 2002-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ontology (information science) & Information needs.

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Perceived Information Needs and Communication Difficulties of Inpatient Physicians and Nurses

TL;DR: It is suggested that information needs and communication difficulties are common and can lead to medical errors or near misses and many of these problems may be amenable to information technology solutions.
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Improving operating room coordination: communication pattern assessment.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that automating aspects of preparing patients for surgery and surgical equipment management has the potential to reduce information exchange, decreasing interruptions to clinicians and diminishing the possibility of adverse events in the clinical setting.
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PalmCIS: A wireless handheld application for satisfying clinician information needs

TL;DR: The motivation behind PalmCIS, an application that provides access to needed patient information via a wireless personal digital assistant (PDA), and design and development of the system, and future directions are discussed.
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Context-based ontology building support in clinical domains using formal concept analysis.

TL;DR: Under the framework of the ontology building support system using FCA, the clinical experts could reach a mass of both linguistic information and context-based knowledge that was demonstrated as useful to support their ontologyBuilding tasks.

Methodological Review Mining complex clinical data for patient safety research: a framework for event discovery

TL;DR: This work has created a framework for electronic detection that includes selecting target events, assessing what information is available electronically, transforming raw data such as narrative notes into a coded format, querying the transformed data, verifying the accuracy of event detection, characterizing the events using systems and cognitive approaches, and using what is learned to improve detection.
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Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I.

TL;DR: There is a substantial amount of injury to patients from medical management, and many injuries are the result of substandard care.
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The nature of adverse events in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II

TL;DR: The high proportion that are due to management errors suggests that many others are potentially preventable now, and reducing the incidence of these events will require identifying their causes and developing methods to prevent error or reduce its effects.
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Incidence of Adverse Drug Events and Potential Adverse Drug Events: Implications for Prevention

TL;DR: Adverse drug events were common and often preventable; serious ADEs were more likely to be preventable and prevention strategies should target both stages of the drug delivery process.
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Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations

John F. Sowa
TL;DR: This chapter discusses knowledge representation, meaning, purpose, context, and agents in the context of ontology, as well as some examples of knowledge acquisition and sharing.
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