Safeguarding Adults Reviews: Prompting practice and policy

Panel Discussion II: Safeguarding Good Policy Practice

economic growth and employment. Good policy practice can be judged by the outcomes achieved. Therefore, I would like to briefly outline the Federal Reserve’s performance with respect to the level and the variability of inflation and growth. To be sure, the strong economic performance over the past two decades has several possible explanations, but the practice of monetary policy has likely cont...

Prompting in Practice: Howcanweensure Radiologists

Code of practice for safeguarding health information.

1. The MICs Group of Health Services is responsible for maintaining, handling and processing health information on and therefore shall:  have written policies regulating access to, release of, transmittal and destruction of health information;  educate all Team Members with regard to maintaining confidentiality of information, and have them sign a pledge of confidentiality. This shall also ap...

Safeguarding good scientific practice in Europe.

National governments invest in research and development with the intention of creating new jobs and commodities and of stimulating economic growth. At the same time, science is becoming a truly global enterprise owing to the increased ease of international collaboration and communication between research groups and the global mobility of scientists themselves. The globalization of science and i...

Effects of a reviewer-prompting strategy on timely manuscript reviews.

We studied a reviewer-prompting system designed to improve the timeliness of journal reviews. The prompting system consisted of an e-mail message sent individually to reviewers noting the manuscript number, review due date, and associated social amenities for the timely completion of the task. Our results indicated that the prompting system increased timely reviews.