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 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 Compendio di Deontologia Forense e Notarile written by Giulio Perrotta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agile manuale di deontologia forense e notarile. FastLaw, la collana di "diritto veloce" pratica e alla portata di tutti.

Download or read book Compendio di ordinamento e deontologia forense written by Michela Bartolini and published by La Tribuna. This book was released on 2020-04-20T16:48:00+02:00 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La nuova Collana Compendi Tribuna si rivolge ai candidati ai concorsi pubblici, agli studenti universitari e a tutti coloro i quali siano chiamati a sostenere prove d’esame per l’abilitazione professionale, con particolare riguardo per l’esame orale di avvocato. I Compendi Tribuna si caratterizzano per chiarezza di esposizione, capacità di sintesi e taglio ad un tempo semplice quanto accurato, che consente di apprendere e memorizzare facilmente ogni argomento affrontato. Fra i punti di forza di ogni volume, segnaliamo: - l’accurata suddivisione degli argomenti in paragrafi e sottoparagrafi; - la sapiente utilizzazione delle piste laterali di lettura, che permettono di individuare immediatamente i concetti fondamentali della materia trattata; - l’utilissima selezione di domande per l’autovalutazione immediata del proprio livello di apprendimento; - l’alto livello di aggiornamento normativo e giurisprudenziale; - la presenza dell’indice analitico alfabetico, che rende agevole la ricerca degli argomenti e degli istituti.

Download or read book Legal Origins and Legal Change written by Alan Watson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compendio di ordinamento e deontologia forense written by Pietro Savarro and published by La Tribuna. This book was released on 2017-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collana diretta da Francesco Bartolini La nuova Collana Compendi Tribuna si rivolge ai candidati ai concorsi pubblici, agli studenti universitari e a tutti coloro i quali siano chiamati a sostenere prove d'esame per l'abilitazione professionale, con particolare riguardo per l'esame orale di avvocato. I Compendi Tribuna si caratterizzano per chiarezza di esposizione, capacità di sintesi e taglio ad un tempo semplice quanto accurato, che consente di apprendere e memorizzare facilmente ogni argomento affrontato. Fra i punti di forza di ogni volume, segnaliamo: - l'accurata suddivisione degli argomenti in paragrafi e sottoparagrafi; - la sapiente utilizzazione delle piste laterali di lettura, che permettono di individuare immediatamente i concetti fondamentali della materia trattata; - l'utilissima selezione di domande per l'autovalutazione immediata del proprio livello di apprendimento; - l'alto livello di aggiornamento normativo e giurisprudenziale; - la presenza dell'indice analitico alfabetico, che rende agevole la ricerca degli argomenti e degli istituti.

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 Stem Cell Banking written by Dusko Ilic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exemplifies experience across the globe in banking of cord blood, mesenchymal, embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells for clinical use from the United States, Canada, the European Union, Switzerland and Japan to Iran, India and Serbia. The concerns are similar regardless of stem cell type or origin. Implementing core values and common standards depend often on specific circumstances of political and economic setting, which makes flexibility as important as systematic planning. Banking of stem cells is not just building a repository and storing samples. The planning, design, construction and maintenance involve multiple skilled professionals. Stem cell banks are points where technology and medicine converge with ethics, laws and regulations. If properly designed and organized, their utilization will have a broad impact not only on the scientific community and medical professionals but also on the general public.

Download or read book Compendio di ordinamento e deontologia forense written by Michela Bartolini and published by La Tribuna. This book was released on 2018-05-16T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La nuova Collana Compendi Tribuna si rivolge ai candidati ai concorsi pubblici, agli studenti universitari e a tutti coloro i quali siano chiamati a sostenere prove d’esame per l’abilitazione professionale, con particolare riguardo per l’esame orale di avvocato. I Compendi Tribuna si caratterizzano per chiarezza di esposizione, capacità di sintesi e taglio ad un tempo semplice quanto accurato, che consente di apprendere e memorizzare facilmente ogni argomento affrontato. Fra i punti di forza di ogni volume, segnaliamo: - l’accurata suddivisione degli argomenti in paragrafi e sottoparagrafi; - la sapiente utilizzazione delle piste laterali di lettura, che permettono di individuare immediatamente i concetti fondamentali della materia trattata; - l’utilissima selezione di domande per l’autovalutazione immediata del proprio livello di apprendimento; - l’alto livello di aggiornamento normativo e giurisprudenziale; - la presenza dell’indice analitico alfabetico, che rende agevole la ricerca degli argomenti e degli istituti. L'Opera è aggiornata con i nuovi parametri forensi (D.M. 8 marzo 2018, n. 37).

Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome written by Zvi Yavetz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormous numbers of slaves were absorbed into Roman society from the third century B.C. onwards. Mainly enslaved prisoners of war, they transformed the quality of life in the Roman Empire beyond recognition. In this anthology the author offers a complete collection of Greek and Latin sources in an English translation which deal with the great slave rebellions in the second and first centuries B.C. In a postscript Zvi Yavetz surveys the controversy on slaves and slavery from the French Revolution to our own days, with an emphasis on the debate between Marxists and non-Marxists. The book is intended for specialists and generalists alike, including those who have had no previous classical education, but could after delving in sources concern themselves with one of the most intriguing problems in world history. Zvi Yavetz holds the Lessing Chair of Roman History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and is distinguished visiting professor at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books in Hebrew, French and German on Roman history among which are Julius Caesar and His Public Image and Plebs and Princips.

Download or read book Compendio di ordinamento e deontologia forense written by Michela Bartolini and published by La Tribuna. This book was released on 2019-03-18T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collana diretta da Francesco Bartolini La nuova Collana Compendi Tribuna si rivolge ai candidati ai concorsi pubblici, agli studenti universitari e a tutti coloro i quali siano chiamati a sostenere prove d’esame per l’abilitazione professionale, con particolare riguardo per l’esame orale di avvocato. I Compendi Tribuna si caratterizzano per chiarezza di esposizione, capacità di sintesi e taglio ad un tempo semplice quanto accurato, che consente di apprendere e memorizzare facilmente ogni argomento affrontato. Fra i punti di forza di ogni volume, segnaliamo: - l’accurata suddivisione degli argomenti in paragrafi e sottoparagrafi; - la sapiente utilizzazione delle piste laterali di lettura, che permettono di individuare immediatamente i concetti fondamentali della materia trattata; - l’utilissima selezione di domande per l’autovalutazione immediata del proprio livello di apprendimento; - l’alto livello di aggiornamento normativo e giurisprudenziale; - la presenza dell’indice analitico alfabetico, che rende agevole la ricerca degli argomenti e degli istituti.

Download or read book Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire written by K. R. Bradley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, was maintained over time and how, at the practical level, the lives of slaves in the Roman world were directly controlled by their masters. The author demonstrates, first, how the tensions generated between slaves and masters can be perceived in the ancient sources, and, second, how those tensions were dealt with, as masters treated their slaves with varying forms of generosity and punishment in order to elicit obedience from them. Special attention is given to the slaves' family lives, to their acquisition of freedom through manumission, and to the climate of violence that surrounded them. Emphasizing the harsh realities of Roman slavery in a new way, this important book will stir intense debate among scholars and students.

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 The Golden Thread written by Ewan Clayton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty–first–century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which—ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC—has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: "What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty–first century?" The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.

Download or read book Ordinamento forense e deontologia written by Marina Crisafi and published by Key Editore. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le norme di comportamento alle quali l’avvocato è vincolato nell’esercizio dell’attività professionale compongono il codice deontologico forense. Essenziale per la realizzazione e la tutela dell’affidamento della collettività e della clientela, della correttezza dei comportamenti, della qualità ed efficacia della prestazione professionale, esso rivela la funzione sociale dell’avvocato che è quella di prevenire ed evitare i conflitti e di garantire che gli stessi si rivolvano secondo diritto. Il volume si occupa di illustrare le norme di comportamento contenute nel codice deontologico e di evidenziare i comportamenti che l’avvocato ha il dovere di tenere nell’esercizio della professione, tenendo conto della giurisprudenza del Consiglio Nazionale Forense, di legittimità e di merito. Il testo è di agevole consultazione ed è rivolto in particolare agli appartenenti all’avvocatura ma può essere un valido ausilio anche per gli altri soggetti con i quali l’avvocato si interfaccia: clienti, magistrati, periti, testimoni, ecc.

Download or read book The Roman Law of Slavery written by William Warwick Buckland and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: