Let’s get ready to…

You know all those patients you discharge every shift after a “negative” work-up? Yeah, those boring patients with “nothing wrong.”

Well, some of those patients come back, or even worse, die of an unexpected, undiagnosed cause!!! I would know. I’ve missed diagnoses myself and I’ve reviewed litigated case. Some adverse outcomes are unavoidable, but sometimes errors are made in our fast-paced, high-stress workplace.

I wonder if…

Could these misses be prevented by a standardized approach?

So before we all get replaced by AI, could I write my own algorithm to include in all my charts to remind me of all (or most) of the dangerous diagnoses I don’t want to miss
AND
speed up that MDM by pre-populating a chart with steps and logic I used to safely discharge my patients while considering all possible dangerous outcomes???

My answer is…

YES, and likely someone is writing AI algorithms to do just that!