Correction: Unveiling Patient-Level Harms and At-Risk Clinical Groups During Hospital Cyberattacks: Systematic Review of Global Case Studies and Social Media Data - Scorecard - MDSpire
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Correction: A Systematic Review of Global Case Studies and Social Media Data on Patient Harms and Vulnerable Clinical Groups in Hospital Cyberattacks

  • By

  • Isabel Straw

  • Deepak Kumar

  • Seoyoung Kweon

  • Jordan Selzer

  • Christian Dameff

  • Jeffrey Tully

  • November 4, 2026

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Clinical Scorecard: Correction: A Systematic Review of Global Case Studies and Social Media Data on Patient Harms and Vulnerable Clinical Groups in Hospital Cyberattacks

At a Glance

CategoryDetail
ConditionPatient-level harms and vulnerable clinical groups in hospital cyberattacks
Key MechanismsHospital cyberattacks and their reported patient-level harms, identified through academic literature and social media data
Target PopulationPatients affected by hospital cyberattacks, including clinical groups described as vulnerable in the reviewed data
Care SettingHospitals; the correction concerns a systematic review of global case studies and social media data

Key Highlights

  • The correction addresses an error in the report on patient harms and vulnerable clinical groups during hospital cyberattacks.
  • The file previously provided as Multimedia Appendix 4 duplicated Multimedia Appendix 5.
  • The corrected Appendix 4 presents examples of patient-level harms from academic literature and social media data, organized by clinical domain.
  • Academic quotations include authors and references; social media quotations identify the relevant subreddit and have been deidentified.
  • The corrected article was resubmitted to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories.

Guideline-Based Recommendations

Diagnosis

    Management

      Monitoring & Follow-up

        Risks

        • The correction notice reports an appendix-file duplication; it does not provide clinical risk estimates or patient-care recommendations.

        Patient & Prescribing Data

        Patients described in academic literature and social media data as experiencing harms during hospital cyberattacks; no prescribing population is specified.

        The correction notice provides no treatment or prescribing information.

        Clinical Best Practices

        • Use the corrected Multimedia Appendix 4 for the cited examples of patient-level harms; the notice does not specify clinical best practices.

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