Strengthening Our Global Commitment

Patient safety: fulfilling our commitment.

T he need to focus on increasing patient safety is an issue of which we are all aware. The two major plastic surgery organizations, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), have actively promoted patient safety in their respective publications, meetings, and public education. In fact, they have urged patients to seek out boa...

President's page: Strengthening our house of cardiology.

h n v m i c t uring our careers, we have witnessed an explosion of cientific and clinical knowledge aided by new technologies nd a growing network of supportive, specialized health care rofessionals. More investment in treatment and prevention esearch is fueling medical innovation. The average life span s growing significantly, providing new lifestyle opportuniies for living healthfully into ou...

Improving global health, strengthening global security.

Our commitment is to patient partnership.

Evidence that leads to changes practice is rarer than we might hope. In partnership with the MAGIC non-profit research and innovation programme (http://magicproject.org), we are now on the lookout for such practice changing evidence on which to base our “Rapid Recommendations” series. So far we have published one on whether patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who are at low to inte...

Global Commitment in Multidatabase Systems

Won Kim UniSQL, Inc. 9390 Research Blvd. Austin, TX 78759 In this paper, we investigate the reliability aspects of transaction processing in multidatabase systems from a formal point of view. We define a new correctness notion called global commitment (GC) for reliable transaction processing in a multidatabase environment in which local DBMSs may not support the prepared state of the two phase ...