Questioning Medicine

https://shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhm.13350Xu J et al. Hospital-associated venous thromboembolism prophylaxis use by risk assessment at a large integrated health care network in Northern California. J Hosp Med 2024 Jun; 19:449. Authors took 850,000 adult nonsurgical, non–intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations at 21 Kaiser Permanente hospitals in northern California, and did a retrospective study of inpatient pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis, investigators compared risk assessment by admitting physicians with risk assessment according to electronic health record (EHR)-The EHR used the Padua prediction score which basically ask yes or no questions like does the pt have active cancer, previous vte, reduce mobility, elderly age, heart or resp failure. All questions that could need a human to fill out but also with could AI or HER should be answered without humans doing anything. In 82% of 850,000 adult nonsurgical, non–intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations, the EHR categorized