BACKGROUND Unsafe medical care may cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally, despite imprecise estimates of the magnitude of the problem. To better understand the extent and nature of the problem of unsafe care, the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety commissioned an overview of the world's literature on patient safety research. METHODS Major patient safety topics were identified ...

Context It has been estimated that one in five women will experience some form of IPV in their lifetime. It has also been estimated that 42 million women undergo pregnancy termination each year, often under unsafe conditions. IPV as well as pregnancy termination have been recognised as global public health concerns; however, the extent to which IPV is associated with pregnancy termination remai...

Intervention or evaluation studies represent a small proportion of traffic psychology research. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a road safety intervention by measuring attitudes toward unsafe driving behaviors and risk perception. A sample of high school students (n=133) participated in a road safety intervention program focusing on attitudes and risk perceptions of young peopl...

PURPOSE To identify factors associated with physician performance in a comprehensive competence assessment. METHOD The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of 683 physicians referred for assessment at the Center for Personalized Education for Physicians from 2000 to 2010, who were evaluated as either safe or unsafe to return to practice. Multivariate logistic regression was used to dete...

Polynomial-time safe and unsafe approximations for intractable sets were introduced by Meyer and Paterson [Technical Report TM-126, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1979] and Yesha [SIAM J. Comput., 12 (1983), pp. 411–425], respectively. The question of which sets have optimal safe and unsafe approximations has been investigated extensively. Duris and Rolim [Lecture Notes in...

Unsafe Abortion constitutes a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in developing countries. It is randomly practiced though exact statistics is not available due to lack of cooperation from concerned parties. Complications occur in a large portion of these cases which ultimately require tertiary care. This case report of complications associated with an unsafe abortion highlights the...

Unsafe injection practices are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly from hepatitis B and C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. These inadvertently transmitted bloodborne diseases become manifest some considerable time after infection and hence may not be appropriately accounted for. Annually more than 1.3 million deaths and US$ 535 million are estimat...

India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate extremes, which have significant consequences to the urban population. In fact, natural disasters are triggered by natural hazards, but its impact on a certain population depends mostly on human factors. In India what makes the urban population more vulnerable are the high population density; [...] the poor living conditions; and the u...

This paper argues that the “safety verification” of a safety-related software system needs to be distinguished from the task of verifying that the behaviour of the system conforms to the requirements. Limitations of requirements-based testing are discussed. The main characteristics of a hazard-driven approach to safety testing of software-intensive systems are outlined. This paper also briefly ...