Healthcare Research and Quality (2000)‚ “medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related errors cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year”. In addition to the monetary cost of errors‚ the physical and psychological costs such as pain
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Iliad‚ Homer gives us a choice. Do we believe that the gods of Mt. Olympus control and interfere in human lives creating the many dramas that is the Greek life or do humans control their own destiny while using the gods as an excuse for their misfortunes? The arguement and reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon perfectly illustrate this delimma through their speeches of supposed forgiveness and understanding. The reconciliation begins with the death of Achilles close friend‚ Patroclus. This flies
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會計 – 銀行對數表 (bank reconciliation statement) 筆記 1. 每間公司都會開設往來戶口‚ 方便使用支票。 公司會在開支現金簿紀錄銀行存款 deposit 及提款 draw / withdraw 的資料: 增加存款的事項記在左方 direct‚ 減 少存款的事項記在右方 credit‚ 月初須用人手計算戶口結餘 closing balance. 2. 月底‚ 銀行會寄來一張月結單 monthly bank statement‚ 讓我們核對現金簿的紀 錄。 月結單的記事方向與公司剛好相反‚ 減少存款的事項記在左方 debit‚ 增加 存款的事項記在右方 credit (當然‚ 考試時須小心看題目); 此外‚ 由於用電腦操作‚ 每次事項完成後‚ 都即時出現最新的結餘。 (有可能是”透支結餘” overdraft) 3. 有些資料是銀行月結單有紀錄‚ 而我們現金簿並無紀錄的‚ 包括: (a) 銀行代我們收到客戶的存款 direct credit / credit transfer 表示我們須補記所增加的存款
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Abstract Medical errors and the quality problems to which they lead harm millions of Americans each year. If we are to reduce errors and improve quality substantially‚ we must create systems and care processes that anticipate inevitable human errors and either prevent them or compensate for them before they cause harm. Formidable barriers now stand in the way of progress. Success will require a multifaceted strategy‚ including public education‚ government investment and regulation‚ payment system
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Medication Errors Paper Dorothy Pasowisty Pharmacology 2 Angela Falconer Practical Nursing Program June 30th‚ 2010 Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................3 Summaries of Journal Articles.........................................................................................................3 The Definition of a Medication Error....................................
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benefits of proper basic automotive preventive maintenance. Central Idea: Proper basic automotive preventive maintenance can save any driver substantial amounts of time‚ money‚ and frustration. Introduction I. “It’s a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly‚ just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go” – Bertrand Russell (20th century philosopher and logician) II. You can’t control somebody’s attitude‚ but you can however‚ control whether or not your car is going
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Error Analysis and Interlanguage S. P. Corder Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Walton Street‚ Oxford ox2 6DP Acknowledgements London Glasgow New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associates in Beirut Berlin Ibadan Mexico City Nicosia ISBN o 19 437073 9 © S. PitCorder 1981 First published ig8i Second impression 1982 This book is sold subject to the
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Error Analysis Khalid Shamkhi 1.Definition Crystal (2003:165)defines error analysis(henceforth EA) as ‘a technique for identifying‚ classifying and systematically interpreting the unacceptable forms produced by someone learning a foreign language ‚using any of the principles and procedures provided by linguistics.’ EA was established in the 1960s by Stephen Pit Corder and colleagues as an alternative to contrastive analysis. It showed
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“Human error versus human capability: Which way should the pendulum swing?” Human factors can be defined as “the technology concerned to optimize the relationship between people and their activities by the systematic application of the human sciences‚ integrated within the framework of system engineering” (Edwards‚ 1988‚ p. 9). Human factors have evolved over the years since the birth of tools many millennia ago (Civil Aviation Authority‚ 2002). The modern evolution of human factors happened in
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The Practice of Preventive Diplomacy in the African Union Bethelhem Taye Alemu The Practice of Preventive Diplomacy in the African Union Acronyms APSA- African Peace and Security Architecture ASF- African Stand by Force AU- Africa Union CEWS- Continental Early Warning System COMESA- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States ECCAS- Economic Community of Central African States EAC- East African Community IGAD- Intergovernmental
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