echocardiography is considered the primary diagnostic tool for congenital heart diseases. the pediatric echocardiography diagnostic errors, consisting of false positive or discrepant diagnoses, picked up within a 2.5-year period in our pediatric echocardiography laboratory are presented herein. in this case report, the factors contributing to the diagnostic errors are categorized as cognitive s...

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyse the role of the pharmacy department in detecting errors in the prescription of cytostatic drugs. METHOD A retrospective study was carried out over a two year period (2003-2004), which reviewed the errors detected by pharmacists in chemotherapy prescriptions. Medication errors were classified according to the system published by Otero et al. in the paper OErro...

Erratum: Intermediate scattering function of an anisotropic active Brownian particle Christina Kurzthaler, Sebastian Leitmann & Thomas Franosch Scientific Reports 6:36702; doi: 10.1038/srep36702; published online 10 November 2016; updated on 04 January 2017 The original version of this Article contained errors. The publication date of the Article, 10th November 2016, was incorrectly listed as 1...

abstractthis study evaluated the translation quality of english equivalents of persian proper nouns in the tourist signs and bilingual boards in isfahan. to find different errors in the translations of the bilingual boards and tourist signs, the data were collected directly by taking picture or writing exactly from the available tourist signs and bilingual boards. then, the errors were assessed...

Polynucleotide templates were copied by avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase ("reverse transcriptase") and the frequency and distribution of errors were determined. The error rate with [r(pA)2500-d(pT)12-18] template-initiator under a variety of conditions was approximately 1/600, i.e. one incorrect dCMP incorporated for 600 correct dTMP polymerized. Addition of the metal chelator o-phenan...

As complexity for treating patients increases, so does the risk of error. Some publications have suggested that record and verify (R&V) systems may contribute in propagating errors. Direct data transfer has the potential to eliminate most, but not all, errors. And although the dosimetric consequences may be obvious in some cases, a detailed study does not exist. In this effort, we examined pote...

the aim of this qualitative study was to determine the most important medical errors made by gynecology residents. this study used a delphi technique in three rounds. first, a list of common errors was prepared using a questionnaire, then the most important errors were prioritized and finally, the managerial and training procedures were determined for errors. in this study, 45 common errors wer...

Many problems, such as the sliding-tile puzzles, generate search trees where different nodes have different numbers of children, in this case depending on the position of the blank. We show how to calculate the asymptotic branching factors of such problems, and how to efficiently compute the exact numbers of nodes at a given depth. This information is important for determining the complexity of...