Critical incident reporting: Why should we bother?

why we should write an article?

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره سیزدهم، اردیبهشت 1393، 110-109       چرا باید مقاله بنویسیم؟ why we should write an article?     محسن رضائیان[1] m. rezaeian     دلایل بسیار زیادی برای نگارش یک مقاله وجود دارد. اگرچه، همیشه تمامی این دلایل جنبه مثبت ندارند و این امکان وجود دارد که تعداد بسیار اندکی از دانشمندان به دلایل منفی، اقدام به نگارش یک مقاله نمایند، تمرکز در این...

How to distinguish altruism from spite (and why we should bother).

Social behaviour is often described as altruistic, spiteful, selfish or mutually beneficial. These terms are appealing, but it has not always been clear how they are defined and what purpose they serve. Here, I show that the distinctions among them arise from the ways in which fitness is partitioned: none can be drawn when the fitness consequences of an action are wholly aggregated, but they ma...

Critical incident reporting and learning.

Editor—We were interested to read the article of Professor Mahajan and concur with his view that safety can be improved by learning from incidents and near misses. 1 Furthermore , we agree that investigation of incidents should not underestimate the potential of analysing incidents that are near misses or which have not led to patient harm. 1 We also accept that under-reporting of incidents by ...

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Clinicians inevitably encounter patients who meet the diagnostic criteria for the metabolic syndrome (MetS); these criteria include central obesity, hypertension, atherogenic dyslipidaemia, and hyperglycaemia. Regardless of the variations in its definition, MetS may be associated with adverse outcomes in patients undergoing both cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. There is a paucity of data concer...

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