Identifying health information technology related safety event reports from patient safety event report databases.

Allan Fong; Katharine T Adams; Michael J Gaunt; Jessica L Howe; Kathryn M Kellogg; Raj M Ratwani

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Identifying health information technology related safety event reports from patient safety event report databases.

October 3, 2018

Fong A, Adams KT, Gaunt MJ, et al. J Biomed Inform. 2018;86:135-142.

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Researchers describe the development of a model to distinguish safety events related to health information technology from free-text descriptions in incident reporting systems. They conclude that their approach is broadly applicable across systems with different reporting structures.

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