OBJECTIVES (i) To examine attitudes of medical and nursing staff towards reporting incidents (adverse events and near-misses), and (ii) to identify measures to facilitate incident reporting. DESIGN Qualitative study. In March 2002, semistructured questions were administered to five focus groups--one each for consultants, registrars, resident medical officers, senior nurses, and junior nurses....

Background and Objectives: Not reporting medication errors by the clinical staff prevent identification of type and frequency of these errors, and thereby developing effective strategies to alleviate the problem. Most investigation of barriers to medication error reporting comes from public hospitals. This study aimed to explore the issue from a nurse’s perspective in private hospital. Methods...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour towards informing a 12-year-old patient of her terminal prognosis in a situation in which her parents do not wish her to be told, as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' responses obtained before ...

The first broadcast news (BN) transcription system for Slovak is introduced. It employs the same modules as the system we developed earlier for Czech. We utilize similarity between the two languages in efficient lexicon building, in mapping Slovak specific (rarely occurring) phonemes onto Czech ones and in low-resource cross-lingual adaptation of acoustic model. The system uses 166K-word lexico...