The Safety and Quality of Decision Support Systems (2008)
Schattauer Gmbh, E. Coiera, J. I. Westbrook, J. C. Wyatt
Objectives: The use of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can improve the overall safety and quality of health care delivery, but may also introduce machine-related errors. Recent concerns...
GLOSSARY Basic concepts in medical informatics (2008)
Email Alerting, J C Wyatt, J C Wyatt
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Ramnarayan, P., Roberts, G. C., Coren, M., Nanduri, V., Tomlinson, A., Taylor, P. M., ...
BACKGROUND: Computerized decision support systems (DSS) have mainly focused on improving clinicians' diagnostic accuracy in unusual and challenging cases. However, since diagnostic omission errors...
Design-a-Trial:a rule-based decision support system for clinical trial design (2004)
Nammuni, K., Pickering, C., Modgil, S., Montgomery, A., Hammond, P., Wyatt, J.C., ...
The complexity of clinical research has meant that clinical trial protocols are often scientifically and ethically unsound. Trial designers often have limited statistical skills and experience in...
Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt (2003)
Littlejohns, P., Wyatt, J.C., Garvican, L.
Summary points: Implementation of a hospital information system in Limpopo Province, South Africa, failed. Problems arose because of inadequate infrastructure as well as with the functioning and...
Survey of doctors' experience of patients using the internet (2002)
Background: There have been many studies showing the variable quality of Internet health information and it has often been assumed that patients will blindly follow this and frequently come to harm....
AN/TTC-38 Fiber-Optic Verification Study. (2002)
Bruce,J. W., Cotten,W. W., Patisaul,C. R., Wyatt,J. C.
This document is a result of a 12 month verification study to determine the system performance of a 12 channel frequency division multiplex (FDM) fiber optic communication system proposed as a...
Survey of doctors' experience of patients using the internet (2002)
Background: There have been many studies showing the variable quality of Internet health information and it has often been assumed that patients will blindly follow this and frequently come to harm....
Detmer, W M, Shiffman, S, Wyatt, J C, Friedman, C P, Lane, C D, Fagan, L M
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the performance of a continuous-speech interface to a decision support system. DESIGN: The authors performed a prospective evaluation of a speech interface that matches...
Detmer, W M, Shiffman, S, Wyatt, J C, Friedman, C P, Lane, C D, Fagan, L M
OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the performance of a continuous-speech interface to a decision support system. DESIGN: The authors performed a prospective evaluation of a speech interface that matches...
Hospital information management: the need for clinical leadership.
On 12 July the Audit Commission published For Your Information, a well researched report about information and its management in acute hospitals in Britain, how and why it is failing, and steps that...
Formalisation of safety reasoning in protocols and hazard regulations.
Hammond, P., Sergot, M. J., Wyatt, J. C.
Written protocols are often employed to guide patient care. For treatment within a clinical trial, compliance with the trial protocol may be critical in ensuring efficacy and safety. Previous...
Klinkhammer-Schalke, M, Koller, M, Ehret, C, Steinger, B, Ernst, B, Wyatt, J C, ...
A system for quality-of-life diagnosis and therapy (QoL system) was implemented for breast cancer patients. The system fulfilled the criteria for complex interventions (Medical Research Council)....