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chucksmash on July 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

> 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-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 on July 29, 2015 [–]

That'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?

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