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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee to Consider Amending the Railway ActsPublisher:
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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First-[third] Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Consider "whether the Railway Acts Do Not Require Amendment, with a View of Providing for a More Effectual Audit of Accounts, to Guard Against the Application of the Funds of Such Companies to Purposes for which They Were Not Subscribed Under the Authority of the Legislature"
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee to Consider Amending the Railway ActsPublisher:
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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First (second, third) Report from the Committee on the Highways of the Kingdom. Ordered to be printed the 11th of May, 1808 (the 30th of May, the 19th June, 1808). [With appendices.]
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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To Err Is Human
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309068371
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 1587634333
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the Fiscal Year Ended
Author: United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal RevenuePublisher:
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309262011
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
The electronic patient record
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215036124
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In England, implementing Electronic patient record (EPR) systems is one of the main aims of the 10-year National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). The main plank of the NPfIT programme is the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) which will create two separate EPR systems: a national Summary Care Record (SCR), containing basic information, and local Detailed Care Records (DCRs), containing more comprehensive clinical information. NCRS will also include a Secondary Uses Service (SUS) which will provide access to aggregated data for management, research and other 'secondary' purposes. On the SCR, this report finds: a lack of clarity about what information will be contained; consent arrangements for creating and adding information have not been well communicated to patients or clinicians; important components have not yet been completed; maintaining security is a serious challenge. The DCR systems are to replace local IT systems across the NHS, but the report points to delays in trials and implementation, difficulty in establishing either the level of information sharing that will be possible, or how sophisticated local IT applications will be. There has also been a lack of local involvement in delivering the project, with hospitals often left out of negotiations between Connecting for Health (the body delivering NPfIT) and suppliers, leading to a lack of enthusiasm for deploying the systems. The Committee recommends Connecting for Health focuses on setting and ensuring compliance with technical and clinical standards for NHS IT systems, allowing local users the final say over which system is procured and how it is implemented. The report points to some notable successes too: agreement on a universal coding language for the NHS, and a single unique patient identifier, the NHS number; and the potential for the SUS and health research is significant.
Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 ...
Author: United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal RevenuePublisher:
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Federal Communications Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Communication policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Annual Report ...
Author: Florida Geological SurveyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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