Numerous studies have revealed that medical errors are responsible for tremendous patient suffering, loss of life, and billions of dollars in costs. Research also suggests that children are at much higher risk of these errors than adults. New information technologies, particularly personal digital assistants (PDAs), are able to provide readily accessible medical information at the point-of-care...

CONTEXT Because of its complex nature, surgical pathology practice is inherently error prone. Currently, there is pressure to reduce errors in medicine, including pathology. OBJECTIVE To review factors that contribute to errors and to discuss error-reduction strategies. DESIGN Literature review. RESULTS Multiple factors contribute to errors in medicine, including variable input, complexit...

You are working an overnight shift in the critical care area of your emergency department (ED). Paramedics bring in an elderly patient from a nursing home with fever, shortness of breath, and a presumptive diagnosis of sepsis. She has a history of multiple medical problems and was recently admitted to your hospital for pneumonia. As you examine the patient, you observe that she is febrile, tach...

due to damaging effects of speckle noise to information of radar images, reduction of these effects has been considered by many researchers. we discussed speckle reduction of radar images based on curvelet transformation. more specifically we discussed the speckle reduction with emphasizing on preservation of the edges by hard thresholding of curvelet transformation. in this algorithm, first mu...