ANNUAL REPORT ON SENTINEL AND SERIOUS UNTOWARD EVENTS (1 October 2012 – 30 September 2013) ANNUAL REPORT ON SENTINEL AND SERIOUS UNTOWARD EVENTS 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2013 HOSPITAL AUTHORITY HONG KONG 1 ANNUAL REPORT ON SENTINEL AND SERIOUS UNTOWARD EVENTS (1 October 2012 – 30 September 2013) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This is the sixth Annual Report on Sentinel and Serious Untoward Events. By continuously learning from sentinel and serious untoward events and by building safe systems, processes
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(Non-fraudulent) Error rate = 0 (Non-fraudulent) 30 58 32 920 n0,1 + n1,0 32 + 58 = = 0.0865 = 8.65% n 1040 Our classification confusion matrix becomes Classification Confusion Matrix Predicted Class 1 (Fraudulent) Actual Class 1 (Fraudulent) 0 (Non-fraudulent) Overall misclassification rate = Accuracy = 1 – Error rate 0 (Non-fraudulent) 0 88 0 952 88 = 0.0846 = 8.46% 1040 We can confirm that the misclassification error is decreased, hence
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aircraft’s design and construction by actually flying the aircraft. Every flight led to a new discovery or a new fixture to a fitting which was something the engineers would work on before it was flown again. This method is commonly known as the trial and error method. After many years of development and with the advancement of technology, programs like space travel and/or nuclear weapons for instance had to be first-time safe which made the fly-fix-fly approach unacceptable. I believe that this approach
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quality of the image file. Moreover, the technique is used in reducing the 48 or 64bpp RAW-format digital photos for editing ("Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code", 2012) Basic Concept of Dithering The main activity in dithering is error diffusion. For example, in reducing a gray scale photograph to black and white to
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Abstract Patient safety and Medical errors are one of the major concerns of healthcare industry. Our group decided to throw more light on the present situation of this issue. In this paper we have given a clear picture about the types of errors, how these errors occur and towards the end we have discussed on how to prevent these errors. The implementation of the actions to prevent errors discussed in our paper will help in improving and reducing them. In doing so, we can be leaders in an effort
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Question1: Is the methodology appropriate for the research objectives? What are the disadvantages of the sampling plan and the method of questionnaire administration? Our answer: Not exactly. Since we conclude that the methodology can be divided into two steps (exploratory research& descriptive research), we would compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two steps as below. Advantages Disadvantages Step1: exploratory research Sampling a group of restaurant employees. This step
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Medication Errors Stephanie Stephens January 9, 2016 NU1426 ITT TECH Nurses must always follow the six rights of medication administration thoroughly to ensure patient safety. These rights include right medication, right route, right time, right client, right dosage, and right documentation. When one of these rights is not followed a medication error has occurred and must be reported immediately. Medication error prevention is vital in the role of the nurse. There were many contributing
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Task 2A; 2B; 2C; 2D ------------------------------------------------- To: Homer Jasperson (Founder of Hayward Home-Style) From: Angelina Hartanto (Project Leader) Title: Market Research on new potential market (Brazil) Executive Summary: Objective of this survey is to find out the correlation between income level and spending patterns in general as well as on household goods. The secondary data collection is obtained through an external source from an accountable Internet web (www
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School Enrollment and Work Status: 2011 American Community Survey Briefs By Jessica Davis Issued October 2012 ACSBR/11-14 INTRODUCTION This brief presents data on school enrollment and student work status for the nation based on the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS). It takes a look at the proportion of students who worked and how much they worked over the previous year. Work status questions in the ACS are asked of persons aged 16 and over, so in addition to college students, high school
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care. An adverse event indicates that the care resulted in an undesirable clinical outcome and that an underlying disease did no cause the clinical outcome. Adverse events include medical errors, such as the use of incompatible blood products, incorrect dispensing and administration of medications. Medication errors can result in patient harm including death. Adverse events, near misses, incidents of any kind are to be reported and put in a system called Incident Response Improvement System (IRIS)
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