Maximin Lange

Keywords Physical restraints Intensive care units Health disparities Racial equity Critical care Healthcare policy Patient safety Temporal trends Electronic health records Quality of care Evidence before this study We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus from database inception to September 2025 using search terms including “physical restraint”, “mechanical restraint”, “intensive care”, “ICU”, “critical care”, “racial disparities”, “ethnic disparities”, and “health equity”, without...

A woman aged 62 years presents with shortness of breath. Her chest x-ray is interpreted as normal by an artificial intelligence (AI) triage system. The overworked resident, reassured by the system's apparent confidence, discharges her. Days later, she returns in cardiac arrest with missed signs of heart failure. This scenario reflects a systemic breakdown where over-reliance on the model eclipsed clinical reasoning.

CorrespondenceVolume 406, Issue 10505p804-805 aCeADAR – Ireland's Centre for AI, University College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland bMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA cKing's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK dUniversity of Bergen, Faculty of Medicine, Bergen, Norway eTechnetium Engineering, Palm Bay, FL, USA fETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Publication History: Published August 23, 2025 DOI:...