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    Human Error

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    Road Accidents caused by human error Evaluate the effectiveness of a law legislation that has been enforced to reduce road accidents caused by human error. Every day in our society it is said that according to statistics 90% of road accidents are caused by human error through the use of speeding‚ phones and alcohol. There have been a number of laws and legislation that has been emplaced to decrease the number of accidents caused by human error which include No phones are being used while driving

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    you err it stir

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    You err‚ it stirs… The story of how technology made the world tremble each time a spelling mistake was made... What do you get when you put together a processor‚ some memory‚ Linux OS‚ vibration mode‚ motion sensor and Wi-Fi capabilities? A computer‚ of course. Now‚ what happens when you add some ink and a nib to this contraption? You get a digital pen that vibrates when it spots spelling mistakes or illegible writing. The pulsating pen has steadily been writing its own success story in traditional

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    Assignment 1 Perceptual Biases and Reducing Their Impact May 29‚ 2011 Biases‚ and more specifically‚ perceptual biases are a range of humanly inevitable techniques that are used by people to make sense of the behaviours‚ personalities‚ and attitudes of other people around them. These various techniques are generally the easy way out when we try to analyze an individual’s predisposition. However‚ because they are the easy way out‚ they cause us to receive only a limited and possibly inaccurate

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    Healthcare Research and Quality (2000)‚ “medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related errors cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year”. In addition to the monetary cost of errors‚ the physical and psychological costs such as pain

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    Medication Errors

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    Medication Errors By: Rebecca Abell When doing the job of nursing one of the most important aspects is patient safety. The biggest danger to patients is medication. A medication error is when the nurse gives a patient the wrong medication or the dose of medication could be wrong. The danger of the medication error is that it can lead to an over dose‚ a reaction‚ or even death to a patient. There are several things to know when dealing with medication errors like who should fill it out‚ who should

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    Systematic Error

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    Systematic Error Systematic error is a short phrase that is usually easy to find in the science classes. Usually‚ there are lots of different ways to define this phrase. So‚ what is the exact meaning of systematic error? Systematic error is one of the biases in measurement which could reduce the accuracy of the result of the measurement and cannot attribute to chance. Systematic error is a kind of bias in measurement. Literally‚ it leads to the situation where the mean of many separate measurements

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    Medical Error

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    Medical Error: What the Public Should Know “For all of its strengths‚ our health care system still is plagued by avoidable errors.” -President Bill Clinton The issue of medical error is recognized as a very serious U.S. healthcare concern in terms of avoidable patient death and injury‚ achieving efficacious treatment‚ and in controlling the costs. The prevention of medical errors may seem to be a relatively simple task and with recent awareness‚ some improvements have been accomplished.

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    medication errors

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    Berman‚ A. (2004). Reducing medication errors through naming‚ labeling‚ and packaging. Journal of Medical Systems‚ 28(1)‚ 9-29. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JOMS.0000021518.60670.10 This article talks about the different names of drugs that are similar and may cause medication errors in the healthcare field. Also‚ the article talks about many different ways to label and manufacture the medications so errors will be less. There are many different ways the pills look and are

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    Medication Errors

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    Preliminary Literature Review Description of Problem Medication errors are common in hospitals. The area with larger patient demand and patient with more complex cases are at higher risk for medication errors. The classification of medication errors is by prescription‚ omission‚ time‚ dose‚ inappropriate drugs‚ and disposal. Medication errors also cause emotional and financial losses to the hospitals‚ patients‚ teams‚ families‚ and societies. As the result

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    Using Perceptual Maps in Marketing MKT/421 Using Perceptual Maps in Marketing Thorr Motorcycles is a very successful business based in South Dakota sells motorcycles and motorcycle apparel. Thorr Motorcycles is a multibillion dollar company that manufactures more than 200‚000 motorcycles each year. Thorr has long had an image of producing high-end machines and has enjoyed a 40% share in the market. A recent census indicated that Thorr needs to improve its current product to boost

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