benefit/risk Shirley Murphy, MD, and Rosemary Roberts, MD Silver Spring, Md A prominently displayed boxed warning, the so-called ‘‘black box,’’ is added to the labeling of drugs or drug products by the Food and Drug Administration when serious adverse reactions or special problems occur, particularly those that may lead to death or serious injury. Healthcare providers are often not knowledgeable about the origin, meaning, and implications of these ‘‘black box’’ warnings. In this review, our goal
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Introduction Data Management is the administrative process by which data is acquired, stored, and processed into information. This information can then be used in a variety of ways to help the company, their Management and their employees. This report will review an organisations approach to collecting, storing and using HR data. It covers the reasons why an organisations needs to collect HR data, types of data it collects and how it supports HR, different methods of storing information and their
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3.3 CHARACTERISTICS OF HANDOVER Laxmisan et al (2007) conducted an ethnographic study involving analysis of emergency department handover in a US hospital. The study found that interruptions within the emergency department were prevalent and diverse in nature and that there were gaps in information flow due to multi-tasking and shift changes. The communication process is complex and cognitively taxing during and after team handover, that can compromise patient safety. The study also discusses the
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Methods Design and setting We performed a longitudinal retrospective patient record review study in 21 randomly sampled hospitals in 2004, and 20 in 2008 out of the total of 93 Dutch hospitals. Eight hospitals were studied in both years. Both samples were stratified for hospital type, university, tertiary teaching and general hospitals, and a proper representation of both urban and rural settings in the samples were verified. Tertiary teaching hospitals in The Netherlands provide specialised care
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an over-abundance of information is not implausible. Americans are being overwhelmed with information. Each new day introduces an unrelenting flow of data. Consider the volume of data produced from the start of civilization to the year of 2003. According to research Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the world is now producing that equivalent volume of data every two days (Siegler, 2010). In addition, our current society is overcome with a constant surge in technology. Major technological advances has made
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Jovanny Quesada BSC4925 Epel ES, Blackburn EH, Lin J et. al. (2004). Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. PNAS. 101, 49, 17312-17315. Chronic stress has been demonstrated to be correlated with poor health in various studies which include risks to cardiovascular disease and poor immune function (Epel et. al, 2004). Epel et. al investigates whether stress may accelerate cellular aging translating to diseases associated with organismal aging. Telomeres, a vital component of
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Kudler Fine Foods: Marketing Research Julia Child adapted sophisticated French cuisine for mainstream Americans when she released her cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, in September 1961. The two-volume cookbook was groundbreaking at the time and is considered a standard guide for the culinary community. Since the publishing of her cookbook and airing of her televised cooking show, practicing one’s culinary skills has become commonplace. Kathy Kudler is no exception. She has turned
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Running Head: INTERNET AND TEENAGERS The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers Tabassum Akhter 13304131 Sec: 08 Course: English 102 Date of Submission: 14th August 2013 BRAC University The Use of Internet Creates Adverse Influence on Teenagers On Christmas Day, 1990, in a lab at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee finished building the tools to create the World Wide Web (Krotoski, 2010). Twenty years ago, this act of releasing the technology for
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many different types of pollutants. Ranging from point source pollution such as industrial waste from drainage pipes to non-point source pollution like pesticide and fertilizer runoff from farms, these pollutants and others have had adverse effects on the lakes. Such adverse effects include reducing the water quality, contaminating soils, and damaging the lake ecosystems. This damage produces harmful repercussions on the fish and wildlife stocks, and to the humans surrounding the Great Lakes region as
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Airport. Then using other data such as annual precipitation, passenger and aircraft traffic volumes and other factors, we attempted to correlate these factors with overall delays. These data could assist airport management in predicting periods of flight delay. Design/methodology/approach: Data were taken and analyzed from the data base “Research and Innovation Technology Administration” (RITA) for the years 2005-2011 for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The data included 2.8 million
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