Becker's Healthcare July 30, 2024
Health systems must ensure they’re working to better understand and prevent safety risks among patients with disabilities, said Tejal Gandhi, MD, chief safety and transformation officer at Press Ganey.
At present, disabilities are not a field hospitals are required to denote in safety reports, making it difficult to identify and understand safety trends for this patient population. As part of ongoing efforts to integrate equity into routine safety work, Press Ganey sought to determine whether AI and language processing models could identify patients with disabilities in its Patient Safety Organization database. The Press Ganey PSO operates the nation’s largest database of patient safety events, featuring data from 129 health systems.
For the pilot project, Press Ganey analyzed data...
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