Jane Summerton, Boel Berner, Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Risk and safety in practice
A very recent Canadian paper by Shelagh McRae presents the story of a heart patient of 74 who had been stabilized on the same dose of digoxin for many years; then on a routine control visit he was suddenly found to have a raised serum digoxin level. The most likely causes of such a problem such as overdosage or renal failure were ruled out, and the matter remained a mystery until the patient in...
متن کاملSafety and risk in practice.
1. Drug related hospital admissions: more attention is needed for interventions with patients 57 Hallas et al. from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Odense (Denmark) investigated drug related hospital admissions (DRH) in sub-specialities of internal medicine. I have discussed earlier in "Safety & Risk in Practice" an intervention study by the Odense DRH survey group ...
متن کاملSafety and Risk in Practice
The fact that good drugs are financially out of reach of much of the world’s population is unquestioned; the World Health Organization has documented the issue for many years, and progress towards resolving it is slow. Even in the industrialized world, the cost of medicines is proving a major burden to health services, which one after another have sought ways to circumvent the problem. The mass...
متن کاملSafety and risk in practice
After the Californian Medical Insurance Feasibility Study (CMIFS) in 1978 and the Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) in 1990, another mega-study on adverse patient outcome in hospitals has been published in Australia [1]. The Quality in Australian Health Care Study (QAHCS) includes reviews of the medical records of a sample of 14,179 patients admitted to 28 hospitals in New South Wales and S...
متن کاملSafety & risk in practice.
IN MEDICINE The Harvard Medical Practice Study in the State of New York (1990) pointed out that 3.7% of a sample of 30195 hospitalized patients suffered an adverse event (AE) resulting in measurable disability. Physician experts reviewed 1133 AEs defined as unintended injuries caused by medical management. The AEs were classified as preventable, unpreventable and potentially preventable (i.e. c...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sociologie du travail
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0038-0296,1777-5701
DOI: 10.4000/sdt.26545