Risk Factors for Nonattendance Among Children With Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Nonattendance at scheduled outpatient visits among children with asthma has been associated with an increased risk of acute asthma events and increased health care expenses. Specific risk factors for nonattendance have been suggested, but a comprehensive overview is lacking.

Objective: To investigate risk factors for nonattendance among children with asthma and assess whether nonattendance associates with acute events through a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Perceived reliability of medical device alarms-a major determinant of medical errors driven by frozen medical thinking.

This concept paper introduces the phenomenon of self-assigning a 'perceived reliability' value to medical device readings as a potential source of cognitive bias in medical decision-making. Medical errors can result from clinical decisions based on partial clinical data despite medical device readings providing data to the contrary. At times, this results from clinician distrust of medical device output.