Purpose - The European Union recommendations for patient safety calls for shared clinical risk management (CRM) safety standards able to guide organizations in CRM implementation. The purpose of this paper is to develop a self-evaluation tool to measure healthcare organization performance on CRM and guide improvements over time. Design/methodology/approach - A multi-step approach was implemente...

This paper presents preliminary comparisons of asset ownership estimates derived from wave 1 of the 2004 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) with estimates derived from the 2001 SIPP panel and from other sources. Of primary interest are the estimated ownership rates for “rare” asset types. In contrast to the procedures used in 2001, in the new questionnaire in use for...

Fourteen pilots flew a synthetic vision system (SVS) display, through a terrain and traffic-rich environment in a high fidelity flight simulator. Traffic information was hosted on the SVS display. In a 2x2 factorial design, the SVS display hosted a highway-in-the-sky in half the conditions, and hosted an instrument panel overlay in the other half. We examined the effects of the resulting clutte...

Reduction in maternal mortality requires an in-depth knowledge of the causes of death. This study was conducted to explore the circumstances and events leading to maternal mortality through a holistic approach. Using narrative text analysis, all documents related to maternal deaths occurred from 2007 to 2011 in Kerman province/Iran were reviewed thoroughly by an expert panel. A 93-item chart ab...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the content validity of the Self-perception of Family Health Status scale. METHOD A validation study of an instrument with an online Delphi panel using the consensus technique. Eighteen experts in the subject were intentionally selected, with a multidisciplinary origin and representing different professional fields. Each of the proposed items was assessed using a five-p...

The NCBI now maintains the Short Read Archive (SRA) (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/ sra/) as a repository for data from sequencing projects that use the new massively parallel sequencing technologies, often called next-generation sequencing. These methods can generate hundreds of megabases to gigabases of data in a single instrument run, millions of times the output of a standard Sanger sequencin...

We report on the development of a fully automated real-time PCR assay for the quantitative detection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in plasma with EDTA (EDTA plasma). The MagNA Pure LC instrument was used for automated DNA purification and automated preparation of PCR mixtures. Real-time PCR was performed on the LightCycler instrument. An internal amplification control was devised as a PCR comp...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a complex phenomenon resulting from biological, psychological and social factors, and the use of patient-centred care (PCC) appears to be a promising avenue for its treatment. Various methods have been used for measuring PCC in nurses and physicians (caregivers); however, methodological problems have been raised following the observation of real clinical encounters or...