introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...

F or decades, the development of multi-professional and healthcare residencies in Brazil have been based on the medical residency model, although questions this model have often arisen. It should be noted that there is a 30-year difference between the regulation and implementation of the National Commission of Medical Residency CNRM (in 1977) and that of the National Commission of Multi-profess...

Clinical reports after traumatic brain injury (TBI) suggest frequent difficulties with sustained attention, but their objective measurement has proved difficult. In 1997, Robertson and colleagues reported on a new sustained attention assessment tool, the sustained attention to response task (SART). Individuals with TBI were reported to produce more errors of commission on the SART than control ...

In this paper we will introduce a new high reliability multi-system/sensor decision fusion scheme based on dual measure calculations and formulations. The data are collected from remote sensing of the ground targets in different spectral bands including visible, near infrared (NIR), IR, thermal, and microwave by multi-system/sensor systems. At first, we will review the decision fusion methods s...

In 1995, the Joint Commission began requiring that hospitals report reviewable sentinel events as a condition of maintaining accreditation. Since then, inpatient suicide has been the second most common sentinel event reported to the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission emphasizes the need for around-the-clock observation for inpatients assessed as at high risk for suicide. However, there is s...

This paper presents the first results of a study of Errors Of Commission (EOCs) for a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the Leibstadt nuclear power plant in Switzerland. EOCs refer to inappropriate, undesired actions potentially carried out by the plant operators in the course of an accident and that may aggravate the accident scenario. EOCs contrast with Errors Of Omission (EOOs), which relate to t...

We describe how to extend the ACT-R production system to model human errors in the performance of a high-level cognitive task: to solve simple linear algebra problems while memorizing a digit span. Errors of omission are produced by introducing a cutoff on the latency of memory retrievals. If a memory chunk cannot gather enough activation to be retrieved before the threshold i s reached, retrie...

The Sustained Attention to Response task is a classical neuropsychological test that has been used by many centres to characterize the attentional deficits in traumatic brain injury, ADHD, autism and other disorders. During the SART a random series of digits 1-9 is presented repeatedly and subjects have to respond to each digit (go trial) except the digit '3' (no-go trial). Using voxel-based le...

In close connection with examples relevant to contemporary probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), a review of advances in human reliability analysis (HRA) of post-initiator errors of commission (EOCs), i.e. inappropriate actions under abnormal operating conditions, has been carried out. The review comprises both EOC identification (part 1) and quantification (part 2); part 1 is presented in thi...

Two fixed-threshold (CCRS and ESA) and three contextual (GIGLIO, IGBP, and MODIS) algorithms were used for fire detection with Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data acquired over Canada during the 1995 fire season. The CCRS algorithm was developed for the boreal ecosystem, while the other four are for global application. The MODIS algorithm, although developed specifically for u...