Safety checklists in medicine are designed to identify a potential error before it results in harm to a patient. The World Health Organization (WHO) safety checklist was widely implemented in surgical practice in the UK after significant reductions in death, and peri-operative complications were achieved in eight countries worldwide in the 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' campaign of 2008. Neverthele...

To improve traffic safety, an automatic traffic sign detection system would be important to assist the driver. In this paper, an approach for detecting Norwegian speed limit signs is proposed. It consists of three major steps: Color-based filtering, locating sign(s) in an image and detection of numbers on the sign. About 91% correct recognition is achieved for a selection of 198 images. Ongoing...

Senior drivers are vulnerable to automobile crashes and subsequent injury and death. Safety belts reduce health risks associated with auto crashes. Therefore, it is important to encourage senior drivers to wear safety belts while driving. Using an AB design, replicated five times, we evaluated the short- and long-term effects of a sign with the message "BUCKLE UP, STAY SAFE" attached to a stop ...

IMPORTANCE Compliance with the surgical safety checklist during operative procedures has been shown to reduce inhospital mortality and complications but proper execution by the surgical team remains elusive. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the impact of remote video auditing with real-time provider feedback on checklist compliance during sign-in, time-out and sign-out and case turnover times. DESIGN...

Background: Resident work hour regulations have provided clear benefits but have also increased discontinuity in care. Residents now routinely transfer the care of hospital patients several times per day via sign-out. This process has been linked to medical error in case reports, yet national surveys show it is often haphazardly conducted and data on best practices is limited. The Joint Commiss...

Robust and fast traffic sign recognition is very important but difficult for safe driving assistance systems. This study addresses fast and robust traffic sign recognition to enhance driving safety. The proposed method includes three stages. First, a typical Hough transformation is adopted to implement coarse-grained location of the candidate regions of traffic signs. Second, a RIBP (Rotation I...

An automatic road sign recognition system locates road sign of interest within images captured by an imaging sensor on-board of a vehicle, and then identifies road signs assisting the driver of the vehicle to properly operate the vehicle. This paper presents a real-time road sign recognition system that can be used to improve road safety. The developed system is capable of analysing live road s...