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Human-AI Collaboration in Healthcare: A Scoping Review

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in clinical pathways, making effective human-AI collaboration (HAIC) a practical and policy priority in healthcare. We conducted a scoping review of empirical studies of HAIC in healthcare published from January 2015 to October 2025, using Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and PRISMA-ScR reporting.

Read: The organisational blind spots in making sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship guidance work: A document review

Reducing unnecessary exposure to antimicrobials while minimising preventable deaths from sepsis is a persistent tension that must be addressed in real time by frontline clinicians.

Read: Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Systems Design

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the defining safety challenges of modern healthcare. While antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes are now embedded across health systems, sustaining impact remains difficult. This blog explores how OxSTaR research focuses on strengthening AMS.

Watch: Designing healthcare for clinician wellbeing and patient safety

This Oxford Open Grand Round explores the relationship between clinician wellbeing and workplace design, and how both influence engagement and patient safety.

New GP Quick Reference Handbook

We’re delighted to share our BJGP Open paper from OxSTaR and collaborators, describing the design and implementation of a GP Quick Reference Handbook (GP-QRH) to support safer management of emergencies in general practice.

Read: The use of healthcare simulation to identify and address latent safety threats: a scoping review

A new review "explores how healthcare simulations have been used to identify and address LSTs (latent safety threats), with particular attention to the visibility and application of systems theory in study design, implementation, and analysis."

The Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research team (OxSTaR) team have been pioneering the use of simulation-based education (SBE) at Oxford University for over 15 years. Part of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, they have grown from two to fourteen members, and the extended team now numbers over 50 from a diverse range of backgrounds. Based at the John Radcliffe Hospital, the OxSTaR Centre provides a psychologically safe learning environment for medical students and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.

OxSTaR's work has been recognised by an AdvanceHE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE), which celebrates outstanding collaborative impact on teaching and learning and highlights the key role of teamwork in higher education