Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Download or read book New Hollywood Violence written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
Download or read book Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents written by James Reason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high-technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals. James Reason deals comprehensively with the prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes. He argues that the same general principles and management techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process installations and air, sea and rail transport. Its unique combination of principles and practicalities make this seminal book essential reading for all whose daily business is to manage, audit and regulate hazardous technologies of all kinds. It is relevant to those concerned with understanding and controlling human and organizational factors and will also interest academic readers and those working in industrial and government agencies.
Download or read book Billy Bathgate written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City. The luminous transformation of fact into fiction that is E. L. Doctorow’s trademark comes to triumphant fruition in Billy Bathgate, a peerless coming-of-age tale and one of Doctorow’s boldest and most beloved bestsellers.
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Murder written by Joel Black and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.
Download or read book Killing for Culture written by David Kerekes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book An Organisation with a Memory written by Departm Chief Medical Officer of Health and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of clinical governance gives National Health Service organisations a powerful incentive to focus on serious failures in health care. This report reviews what is known about the scale and nature of these failures, examining the extent to which the NHS has the capacity to learn from them when they do occur, and recommending measures which could help to minimise the likelihood of repeated failures in service in the future. Information was drawn from industry, aviation and academic research.
Download or read book Managing the Unexpected written by Karl E. Weick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of Managing the Unexpected was published in 2001, the unexpected has become a growing part of our everyday lives. The unexpected is often dramatic, as with hurricanes or terrorist attacks. But the unexpected can also come in more subtle forms, such as a small organizational lapse that leads to a major blunder, or an unexamined assumption that costs lives in a crisis. Why are some organizations better able than others to maintain function and structure in the face of unanticipated change? Authors Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe answer this question by pointing to high reliability organizations (HROs), such as emergency rooms in hospitals, flight operations of aircraft carriers, and firefighting units, as models to follow. These organizations have developed ways of acting and styles of learning that enable them to manage the unexpected better than other organizations. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the groundbreaking book Managing the Unexpected uses HROs as a template for any institution that wants to better organize for high reliability.
Download or read book Art as Far as the Eye Can See written by Paul Virilio and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title puts art back where it matters: at the center of politics
Download or read book La mediazione per la composizione delle controversie civili e commerciali written by Bove Mauro and published by CEDAM. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’opera si propone di fornire, nella struttura del commentario per articoli, una prima interpretazione delle norme introdotte in materia di mediazione finalizzata alla conciliazione delle controversie civili e commerciali dal d.lgs. 4 marzo 2010, n. 28. Con questo decreto, il legislatore ha introdotto - sulla scorta dell’esperienza straniera e delle indicazioni dell’Unione europea - una innovativa forma di alternative dispute resolution (ADR) tesa a ridurre, almeno nelle intenzioni, il numero delle controversie su diritti disponibili sottoposte o da sottoporre per la decisione alla Autorità giudiziaria ordinaria. Pur nel rispetto del rigore scientifico, l’opera è caratterizzata anche da un taglio pratico: la seconda parte è affidata all'esame della figura del mediatore e delle principali tecniche di comunicazione. Numerose e rilevanti sono le novità introdotte dal nuovo testo normativo, il quale, peraltro, ha già suscitato un vivace dibattito scientifico tra gli studiosi della materia ed è fonte di confronti e discussioni tra tutti i professionisti interessati. In tale prospettiva, quest'opera intende analizzare il fenomeno della mediazione nel suo complesso, offrendo nella prima parte una disamina critica ed approfondita della nuova legge, nonchè nella seconda parte, un'analisi dettagliata ed esauriente di tutte le fasi di cui si compone il procedimento di mediazione, con particolare attenzione alle principali tecniche di negoziaizione e comunicazione utilizzate nella conduzione degli incontri di mediazione. Viene inoltre sottolineata la straordinaria importanza concreta che la disciplina presenta: importanza che, se per il procedimento obbligatorio di mediazione è differita di dodici mesi dall’entrata in vigore avvenuta il 20 marzo 2010, per il procedimento di mediazione spontaneo e per quello su invito del giudice è invece immediata, applicandosi questi procedimenti anche ai processi in corso. Pari importanza pratica la nuova disciplina riveste per gli organismi di conciliazione già istituiti od istituendi, ai quali è affidata la gestione dei procedimenti di mediazione.
Download or read book La mediazione familiare written by Luca Villa and published by Aletti Editore. This book was released on 2020-07-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non esiste un modo di essere e di vivere che sia il migliore di tutti [...] La famiglia di oggi non è né più né meno perfetta di quella di una volta: è diversa, perché le circostanza sono diverse. Émile Durkheim (1888) Ognuno di noi vede il mondo dal proprio punto di vista. Affermare ciò vuol dire anche porre le basi del conflitto, infatti, dal momento in cui cerco di imporre o proporre il mio punto di vista confliggo con il punto di vista del mio interlocutore. Nel momento in cui sono parte in causa divento un “negoziatore di realtà”. Molto è stato scritto sulle tecniche di negoziazione, e si suol dire che anche in una negoziazione riuscita devo cedere parte di ciò che vorrei per me. La mediazione famigliare cerca di superare questo stallo della negoziazione (che non è, di per sé un errore, a volte, la negoziazione è inevitabilmente sana e produttiva) cercando una terza via, ossia un superamento dei punti vista creando un percorso che ci faccia interpretare una realtà nuova ricostruendo i parametri del nostro vivere rispetto a un quadro generale diverso e condiviso. Ciò comporta impostare uno stile comunicativo e d’interpretazione della realtà, completamente nuovo e impegnativo. Si tratta da parte del mediatore di sospendere il giudizio: “L’individuo si sforza di applicare un’operazione di espansione semantica che rende nozioni, concetti categorie, strumenti concettuali e linguistici inclusi, anche se differenti nelle proprie nozioni, configura un’operazione di espansione del senso delle proprie convinzioni, sospende il giudizio”. Questo libro si pone l’obiettivo di essere una guida per i mediatori formati, che vogliono riflettere sulla loro professione, e a chi, a questa professione comincia ad affacciarsi.
Download or read book Inaugurazione Anno della Mediazione 2013 2014 Atti written by Mario Tocci and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La giornata dell'inaugurazione dell'Anno della Mediazione rappresenta una novità assoluta per l'Italia. Un evento storico che ha la finalità di riunire, ogni anno, tutti i professionisti della mediazione che operano all'interno di ogni settore della vita sociale, al fine di tracciare una linea guida comune delle azioni e strategie da intraprendere per l'anno a venire, nel segno del dialogo, della mediazione, della conciliazione, della riconciliazione, della pace sociale. (Dott. Giammario Battaglia - Segretario Organizzativo del Forum Nazionale dei Mediatori e degli Organismi di Mediazione) La data del 19 settembre 2013 sarà ricordata come una grande festa, la vittoria dell'istituto della mediazione, la vittoria culturale ed etica di questo Paese. (Dott.ssa Irene Gionfriddo - Segretario Organizzativo del Forum Nazionale dei Mediatori e degli Organismi di Mediazione)