‘GETTING HERE FROM THERE’: TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATION IN CANADIAN MILITARY EDUCATION

Getting from here to there.

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Getting from Here to There

High-Reliability Health Care: Getting There from Here

CONTEXT Despite serious and widespread efforts to improve the quality of health care, many patients still suffer preventable harm every day. Hospitals find improvement difficult to sustain, and they suffer "project fatigue" because so many problems need attention. No hospitals or health systems have achieved consistent excellence throughout their institutions. High-reliability science is the st...

Finalizing PTSD in DSM-5: getting here from there and where to go next.

The process that resulted in the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association; ) was empirically based and rigorous. There was a high threshold for any changes in any DSM-IV diagnostic criterion. The process is described in this article. The rationale is presented that ...

News from here and there

Revenue targets for doctors in corporate hospitals As part of its series on ‘Corruption in medicine’, the BMJ, on 3 September 2015, published an article on the unethical practice of profit-driven targets that corporate hospitals in India set for doctors on their payroll. The article by Meera Kay, a Bengalurubased journalist, had viewpoints from the medical and nongovernmental organization (NGO)...