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The Role of the Law in Communicating Patient Safety
No full textThis chapter considers the role of the law in communicating patient safety. Downie, Lahey, Ford, et al’s (2006) preventing, knowing and responding theoretical framework is adopted to classify the different elements of patient safety law. Rather than setting out all relevant patient safety laws in detail, this chapter highlights key legal strategies which are employed to: prevent the occurrence of patient safety incidents (preventing); support the discovery and open discussion of patient safety incidents when they do occur (knowing),; and guide responses after they occur (responding) (Downie, Lahey, Ford, et al 2006). The law is increasingly being invoked to facilitate open discussion of and communication surrounding patient safety.\ud
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After highlighting some legal strategies used to communicate patient safety, two practice examples are presented. The practice examples highlight different aspects of patient safety law and are indicative of communication issues commonly faced in practice. The first practice example focuses on the role of the Ccoroner in communicating patient safety. This example highlights the investigative role of the law in relation to patient safety (knowing). It also showcases the preventing responding and preventing elements in respect of the significant number of communication errors that can occur in a multi-disciplinary, networked health system. The main focus of the second practice example is responding example illustrates how the law responds to health service providers’ and professionals’ miscommunication (and subsequent incidents) during treatment, however it also touches upon knowing and preventing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Disclosure of quality assurance committee membership: Allatt & ACT Government Health Directorate (Administrative Review) [2012] ACAT 67 (28 September 2012)
No full textThe applicant, Mr Craig Allatt, was married to Ms Emily Vermeulen. Nine days after the birth of their child in April 2008, Ms Vermeulen presented to Mental Health ACT with the condition puerperal psychosis. Ms Vermeulen remained under psychiatric care of the Woden Mental Health Team until January 2009 when, tragically, she died. The clinical treatment of Ms Vermeulen was reviewed by a Mental Health Clinical Review Committee (CRC) in late January 2009. The applicant made a FOI request seeking access to the CRC's terms of reference; procedures, results of the review; submissions made to the CRC, the CRC's notes, working papers, and any other documents relating to Ms Vermeulen's treatment; and the names of the CRC members who reviewed Ms Vermeulen's treatment. The release of a number of documents, including the CRC membership, was refused under this request, based on the exemptions set out in ss38, 40 and 42 of the 'Freedom of Information Act' 1989 (ACT) (FOI Act)
The insurance implications of open disclosure in healthcare
No full textIn contrast to as little as a decade ago, open disclosure is now regularly the subject of government policies, professional conferences and academic publications Open disclosure has been advocated since the late 1980s for a variety of reasons, including organisational and legal risk management considerations and, more recently, the need to show respect for the feelings and dignity of victims of adverse events. This article examines the insurance and other legal implications of open disclosure in Australia
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Communicating Care: Informed Consent
No full textAdvances in medicine and technology produce many new treatment options for patients. In addition to this, the increased prevalence of chronic disease and co-morbidities in the population gives rise to new ethical and treatment challenges for patients, as well as for their families, and for healthcare providers. To come to terms with the implications of the various treatment options and with their own diseases, patients and their loved ones, in conjunction with their treating health professionals, need to deliberate about which treatments, interventions and kinds of research participation are preferable
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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