Introduction: Rethinking Safety of Journalists

Rethinking the safety net :

policy and research. Here, I focus on two. First, delivery of social service programs is very different from delivery of cash assistance programs. Whereas welfare or food stamp benefits can be delivered directly to recipients through the mail or an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card, most social services cannot be mailed or delivered to an individual at home. Instead, clients typically vis...

Introduction: Rethinking Science and Religion

Introduction to “rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems”

Rethinking Statistical Approaches to Evaluating Drug Safety

PURPOSE The current methods used to evaluate the efficacy of drug products are inadequate. We propose a non-inferiority approach to prove the safety of drugs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Traditional hypotheses for the evaluation of the safety of drugs are based on proof of hazard, which have proven to be inadequate. Therefore, based on the concept of proof of safety, the non-inferiority hypothesis ...

Rethinking healthcare as a safety--critical industry.

The discipline of ergonomics, or human factors engineering, has made substantial contributions to both the development of a science of safety, and to the improvement of safety in a wide variety of hazardous industries, including nuclear power, aviation, shipping, energy extraction and refining, military operations, and finance. It is notable that healthcare, which in most advanced societies is ...