OBJECTIVE To explore the views and experiences of health sector professionals in Australia regarding a new national law requiring treating practitioners to report impaired health practitioners whose impairments came to their attention in the course of providing treatment. METHOD We conducted a thematic analysis of in-depth, semistructured interviews with 18 health practitioners and 4 medicole...

In this paper, we propose a new security enforcement mechanism and demonstrate how this mechanism can enforce policies for both mandatory access control (MAC) and discretionary access control (DAC) in an object database system. Each class may have a security method that can block messages that leave instances of the class, and can block messages directed to instances of the class. Each supercla...

Pedophilia has become a topic of increased interest, awareness, and concern for both the medical community and the public at large. Increased media exposure, new sexual offender disclosure laws, Web sites that list the names and addresses of convicted sexual offenders, politicians taking a 'get tough' stance on sexual offenders, and increased investigations of sexual acts with children have inc...

Faced with demographic trends that predicted large increases of older drivers within a relatively short period combined with the realization that screening for driver fitness was largely dependent upon health professionals, principally physicians, in 2004 the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) initiated measures that sought to achieve better cooperation with the health professio...

Change Impact Analysis (CIA) is an important task for all who develops and maintains safety critical software. Many of the safety standards that are used in the development and use of systems with a certified safety integrity level (SIL) requires changes of such systems to be initiated by a CIA. The resulting CIA report will identify planned changes that may threaten the existing safety level. ...

INTRODUCTION There is a paucity of data regarding the utilization of emergency departments (EDs) across Wisconsin. It is unknown if national trends in increased utilization are consistent within our state. Several years ago, mandatory reporting of ED visits to the Department of Health and Family Services was instituted and, if accurate, may provide a method for tracking ED usage. METHODS We c...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a common occurrence in Australian society and has far reaching health, social and economic impacts, particularly for females who are the most common victims. It is theorised that paramedics frequently encounter IPV in the field and in some cases are the only agency which deal with IPV victims in the out-of-hospital setting. Thus paramedics have a unique opport...

The purpose of this document is to verify attendance of the author to the Scientific Computing course, at the Danish Technical University (DTU). The reader is assumed to be familiar with the project description, as well as the programming language C++, and the distributed computing interfaces OpenMP and MPI. After a brief outline of the 2-dimensional Poisson problem, numerical methods for appro...

* This paper was prepared at the request of Estelle James, to whom we are grateful for detailed comments on an earlier draft. Geoffrey Kingston also offered valuable insights. 1. Introduction This paper focuses on the Superannuation Guarantee, as Australia's mandatory retirement saving plan is called. We begin by laying out its essential features, and offer an account of its genesis. We then cr...