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> False positives will lead to personnel confusion False positives can lead to death too. This article talks about alert fatigue that contributed to a fatal me
by chucksmash 11y ago
> False positives will lead to personnel confusion
False positives can lead to death too. This article talks about alert fatigue that contributed to a fatal medication error at UCSF:
https://medium.com/backchannel/beware-of-the-robot-pharmacist-4015ebf13f6f https://medium.com/backchannel/beware-of-the-robot-pharmacis...
I'd be wary of giving a lifeguard who might be straining to pay attention to n things an n+1th thing to pay attention to.
- yellowapple 11y agoThat's what I meant by "personnel confusion", yes. A.k.a. the "cried 'wolf'" effect; how can a lifeguard be expected to treat this alarm seriously when all the other ones have been false positives?