Toward Thorough Accurate And Reliable

Author : William B. McAllister,Joshua Botts,Peter Cozzens,Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0160932122

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Toward "thorough, Accurate, and Reliable" by William B. McAllister,Joshua Botts,Peter Cozzens,Aaron W. Marrs Pdf

Toward "Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable" explores the evolution of the Foreign Relations of the United States documentary history series from its antecedents in the early republic through the early 21st century implementation of its current mandate, the 1991 Foreign Relations statute. This book traces how policymakers and an expanding array of stakeholders translated values like "security," "legitimacy," and "transparency" into practice as they debated how to balance the government's obligation to protect sensitive information with its commitment to openness. Determining the "people's right to know" has fueled lively discussion for over two centuries, and this work provides important, historically informed perspectives valuable to policymakers and engaged citizens as that conversation continues. Policymakers, citizens, especially political science researchers, political scientists, academic, high school, public librarians and students performing research for foreign policy issues will be most interested in this volume. Other related products: Available print volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/international-foreign-affairs/foreign-relations-united-states-series-frus

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068376

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To Err Is Human by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America Pdf

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 : James C. Van Hook,Adam M. Howard
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754085224347

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954 by James C. Van Hook,Adam M. Howard Pdf

"This volume complements Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Volume X, Iran, 1951-1954, published in 1989, by providing documentation on the use of covert operations by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations"--Publisher's description.

Author : Zoltán - Rihmer,Alberto Forte,Xenia Gonda,Maurizio Pompili
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889711697

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Toward Comprehensive Understanding of the Suicidal Phenomenon by Zoltán - Rihmer,Alberto Forte,Xenia Gonda,Maurizio Pompili Pdf

Author : Arthur G. Bedeian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015025850788

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Management by Arthur G. Bedeian Pdf

Author : Bo Einarsson
Publisher : SIAM
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0898718155

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Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing by Bo Einarsson Pdf

Numerical software is used to test scientific theories, design airplanes and bridges, operate manufacturing lines, control power plants and refineries, analyze financial derivatives, identify genomes, and provide the understanding necessary to derive and analyze cancer treatments. Because of the high stakes involved, it is essential that results computed using software be accurate, reliable, and robust. Unfortunately, developing accurate and reliable scientific software is notoriously difficult. This book investigates some of the difficulties related to scientific computing and provides insight into how to overcome them and obtain dependable results. The tools to assess existing scientific applications are described, and a variety of techniques that can improve the accuracy and reliability of newly developed applications is discussed. Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing can be considered a handbook for improving the quality of scientific computing. It will help computer scientists address the problems that affect software in general as well as the particular challenges of numerical computation: approximations occurring at all levels, continuous functions replaced by discretized versions, infinite processes replaced by finite ones, and real numbers replaced by finite precision numbers. Divided into three parts, it starts by illustrating some of the difficulties in producing robust and reliable scientific software. Well-known cases of failure are reviewed and the what and why of numerical computations are considered. The second section describes diagnostic tools that can be used to assess the accuracy and reliability of existing scientific applications. In the last section, the authors describe a variety of techniques that can be employed to improve the accuracy and reliability of newly developed scientific applications. The authors of the individual chapters are international experts, many of them members of the IFIP Working Group on Numerical Software.

Author : James Charles Collins
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780712676090

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Good to Great by James Charles Collins Pdf

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how?After a five-year research project, Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to

Author : Christopher Strother,Yasuharu Okuda,Nelson Wong,Steven McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030573676

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine by Christopher Strother,Yasuharu Okuda,Nelson Wong,Steven McLaughlin Pdf

This is a practical guide to the use of simulation in emergency medicine training and evaluation. It covers scenario building, debriefing, and feedback, and it discusses the use of simulation for different purposes, including education, crisis resource management and interdisciplinary team training. Divided into five sections, the book begins with the historical foundations of emergency medicine, as well as education and learning theory. In order to effectively relay different simulation modalities and technologies, subsequent chapters feature an extensive number of practical scenarios to allow readers to build a curriculum. These simulations include pediatric emergency medicine, trauma, disaster medicine, and ultrasound. Chapters are also organized to meet the needs of readers who are in different stages of their education, ranging from undergraduate students to medical directors. The book then concludes with a discussion on the future and projected developments of simulation training. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Emergency Medicine is an invaluable resource for a variety of learners, from medical students, residents, and practicing emergency physicians to emergency medical technicians, and health-related professionals.

Author : Ann H. Crowe,Pamela J. Schaefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : UGA:32108026342660

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Identifying and Intervening with Drug-involved Youth by Ann H. Crowe,Pamela J. Schaefer Pdf

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 1788 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789210578523

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Yearbook of the United Nations 2014 by United Nations Pdf

With its comprehensive coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and administrative and budgetary matters, the Yearbook of the United Nations stands as the authoritative reference work on the annual activities and concerns of the Organization. Fully indexed, the Yearbook includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions, uniquely placing them in a narrative context of United Nations consideration, deliberation and action. This sixty-eighth volume presents the work of the United Nations in dealing with recurring conflicts with severe humanitarian consequences including in the Syrian Arab Republic, where more than 12 million people were in need of basic food, clothing and shelter. The volume also highlights the Organization’s rapid response to an escalatory global health emergency—the Ebola virus disease outbreak across West Africa. It documents the Organization’s coordination of policy discussions to finalize a global sustainable development agenda, with the security of future generations as the core concern; and its efforts to rebuild societies emerging from conflict while keeping the fragile peace in other places. It further details the entry into force of the landmark Arms Trade Treaty, the missile downing of a passenger airliner in the midst of a geopolitical crisis in eastern Ukraine, and securing international human rights and humanitarian law and prosecuting abusers.

Author : Marcus Collins,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781913019051

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Why Study History? by Marcus Collins,Peter N. Stearns Pdf

Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018430952

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The Academy and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : UIUC:30112079179492

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Jan Goldman Ph.D.,Susan Maret
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598845013

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Government Secrecy by Jan Goldman Ph.D.,Susan Maret Pdf

Government Secrecy presents the best that has been thought and written on the subject, including history and philosophy, theory and practice, justification and critique. Through readings, which range from Georg Simmel on secrecy and Max Weber on bureaucracy and secret-keeping, to post-9/11 concerns regarding freedom of information and presidential secrecy, it enables readers to explore the issues and questions that surround the government's right to keep necessary secrets—or not. This collection, and the diverse perspectives it represents, will engage students and other interested parties in a discussion of the benefits—and dangers—of government secrecy. The collection is designed to generate questions regarding historical accuracy of government information, information ethics, professional neutrality, ownership of information, public right to information, national security, and transparency. The essays explore the criteria and conditions for government secret-keeping, as well as contributing to public and academic discussion of the role of secrets in democracies.

Author : Jose Manuel Mendes,Gretchen Kalonji,Rohit Jigyasu,Alice Chang-Richards
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128187517

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Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance to Manage Disaster Risk by Jose Manuel Mendes,Gretchen Kalonji,Rohit Jigyasu,Alice Chang-Richards Pdf

Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance to Manage Disaster Risk presents the second principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030. The framework includes discussion of risk and resilience from both a theoretical and governance perspective in light of the ideas that are shaping our common future and presents innovative tools and best practices in reducing risk and building resilience. Combining the applications of social, financial, technological, design, engineering and nature-based approaches, the volume addresses rising global priorities and focuses on strengthening the global understanding of risk governance practices, initiatives and trends. Focusing on disaster risk governance at the national, regional, and global levels, it presents both historic and contemporary issues, asking researchers and governments how they can use technological advances, risk and resilience metrics and modeling, business continuity practices, and past experiences to understand the disaster recovery process and manage risk. Follows the global frameworks for disaster risk reduction and sustainability, specifically the UNISDR Sendai Framework for DRR, 2015-2030 Addresses lessons learned and future paths in disaster risk governance models Integrates public and private interests in risk governance Presents methodologies dealing with risk uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity