What are the unintended patient safety consequences of healthcare technologies? A qualitative study among patients, carers and healthcare providers
Shahd Abdelaziz, Sara Garfield, Ana Luisa Neves, Jill Lloyd, John Norton, Jackie van Dael, Carly Wheeler, Monsey McLeod, Bryony Dean Franklin · 2024
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Health technologies promise safer care, yet they can also create new risks that no one planned for. Shahd Abdelaziz and eight co-authors asked patients, carers, and health workers in the UK about those side effects in 2024. Forty people joined five online focus groups held in late 2021 and early 2022.
Five themes came out of the talks: unfair access, extra burden on users, loss of the human touch, over trust in the tools, and unclear duty when things go wrong. Some harms were known, such as alert fatigue, while others were newer, like patients growing dependent on their devices. The authors say these themes should shape how new tools are checked for safety.
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| CREATOR | Shahd Abdelaziz, Sara Garfield, Ana Luisa Neves, Jill Lloyd, John Norton, Jackie van Dael, Carly Wheeler, Monsey McLeod, Bryony Dean Franklin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |