A Human Document
Author : William Hurrell Mallock
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Robert Gardner
Publisher : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Anthropological illustration
ISBN : 9780873658577
"These extraordinary photographs, from the eyes of eight very different photographers, remind us of the humanising role of photography..." -- Elizabeth Edwards.
Author : Dana Spiotta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 0743272986
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309068371
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Author : Charles V. Gerkin
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
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Author : René Morales
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780989854610
Exhibition Catalogue
Author : 太宰治
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811204811
A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.
Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108836666
It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Judea Pearl
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0465097618
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.