Olga Kostopoulou

I saw it and reposted.

Please post this on LinkedIn

We are generally more forgiving of human than (an equivalent) algorithmic error. However, in contexts where using an algorithm is the norm, this effect is attenuated, dissipates or even reverses and we would rather retain the algorithm for future use.
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Characteristics and Antibiotic Preferences by Frequency of Antibiotic Use This survey study compares demographic characteristics, beliefs, and antibiotic preferences of US adults who frequently use antibiotics with those who have not used antibiotics over the past year.

Super excited to share key findings from our study in JAMA NO!

Freq abx users (≥3 in 12mo) more likely to report:
-wanting abx for an URI 💊
-Needing help w/health-related materials 📖
-Medical maximizing (prefer to act vs watch/wait) 🚀
-Disbelief in science 🚫🔬

💻: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Explainable AI: definition and attributes of a good explanation for health AI - AI and Ethics Proposals of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions based on more complex and accurate predictive models are becoming ubiquitous across many disciplines. As the complexity of these models increases, t...

What is explainable AI in medicine & what are the attributes of a good explanation? Based on a literature review and a Delphi study (I took part in this as member of the ExAIDSS Expert Group), this article provides an overview of the area and identifies gaps for future research. tinyurl.com/bddn8cs4

Very excited for today's invited speaker. @olgakos.bsky.social will be sharing her work on algorithms to support medical decision making.

hi Johanna, is this free to attend?

NB. "There is good evidence that partial knee replacement
offers better function, quicker recovery, and fewer
complications, as well as significant cost savings" compared to total knee replacement.

Factors influencing UK arthroplasty surgeons' decision‐making between total and medial unicompartmental knee surgery: A vignette‐based behavioural experiment Purpose Surgical options for end-stage knee osteoarthritis (OA) include total and medial unicompartmental knee replacement (TKR and UKR). Deciding which surgery to perform is complex and ill-defined...

🆕 publication: In a behavioural experiment, where surgeons indicated their preference for total vs partial knee replacement, habitual practice (proportion of partial over all knee replacements in a year) was a stronger predictor of their preference than most clinical factors tested. How's your knee?

Scientists, given more time and flexibility, often stumble upon unexpected discoveries—like Alexander Fleming, who saw a mould had killed the bacteria he was growing, paving the way for antibiotics.

Recent study analysed such findings—more of them than you'd expect.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Association Between Surgeon Stress and Major Surgical Complications This cohort study assesses whether surgeon physiological stress of surgeons in 7 specialties, as assessed by sympathovagal balance, is associated with postoperative complications.

Super interesting and the findings are not what you'd expect!

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Or what it means to be a robot!

It’s science fiction of course but Ishiguro doesn’t see it like this (“Klara and the sun”)

Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI

This is a good blog about which AI to use now. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-t...

I didn't even know such a thing (unstructured interviews) existed. Universities do not allow them but perhaps other industries do (?)

Cycle helmet safety ranked by new Imperial research | Imperial News | Imperial College London Cyclists choosing a new helmet can see how much protection different helmets offer, thanks to new safety rankings from Imperial College London.

Cyclists! Please check the safety rating of your helmet on the Hiper website (www.hiperhelmets.org).
Study found "no link between the price of a helmet and the level of safety it provides". (Mine aren't doing very well...)
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/256314/...

McKinsey’s $122mn bribery settlement in South Africa sparks outrage Politicians and campaigners say penalty is insufficient as country struggles with corruption

Is McKinsey still "helping" the NHS?
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If you still aim to submit a paper to our journal Health Literacy & Communication Open in December, please get in touch with me by the 20th at carissa.bonner@sydney.edu.au so we can plan how to manage your submission and open access fee waiver over the holiday break. Thank you!

An informative thread on AMR.

What was the gist? Just give me the gist! 😇

On assisted dying, are we really any good at predicting survival? Forecasting the last seven days of life is harder than the final 24 hours; beyond that, things become shakier still

Predicting survival is fraught with uncertainty. This may not weigh much against giving patients choice but it is an interesting problem for those studying forecasting and preference elicitation. Does anyone know which 2023 study she is referring to (para 7)?
www.ft.com/content/241a... via @ft

I didn't know there was an interview. This doesn't surprise me. We have often found that the initial hypothesis determines the (process and) outcome of the diagnostic process. Also, see studies on predecisional information distortion.

That may simply be better use, better prompts. I'd be more interested in how the tool was used, how it impacted reasoning.

In any case, I think an interesting question is the implementation of LLMs in real-time clinical consultations (gradual information elicitation, belief updating).

Ah yes, someone else also sent me that. The structured format of responding (“reflective practice”) could have improved performance in the control group, so that the LLM group did not do significantly better.

An all-female panel and an inspiring discussion on climate change communications on the last day of the SJDM annual meeting, NYC. @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

Measuring gist-based perceptions of medication benefit-to-harm ratios In this issue of the journal, Wegwarth et al report on a study that sought to identify general practitioner (GP) characteristics that predicted prescribing of potentially hazardous medications or, as ...

My editorial in the BMJ Q&S: measuring how individuals (here, clinicians) perceive and balance the benefits and costs of action can offer valuable insights into decision-making (here, in the context of low-value prescribing). qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/1...

Impressively cool attitude to arriving just before his talk and a clever way of 'buying time' by engaging with the audience, providing examples for his talk, while trying to put up his slides. Nice talk too. The whole session was great.

On changing the rules - not the players.

Generalisability to other types of resistance training and other age groups ?