Horse-related injuries: Causes, preventability, and where educational efforts should be focused

Analysis of medication-related malpractice claims: causes, preventability, and costs.

BACKGROUND Adverse drug events (ADEs) may lead to serious injury and may result in malpractice claims. While ADEs resulting in claims are not representative of all ADEs, such data provide a useful resource for studying ADEs. Therefore, we conducted a review of medication-related malpractice claims to study their frequency, nature, and costs and to assess the human factor failures associated wit...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

The antibiotic revolution should be more focused.

Patient safety efforts should focus on medical injuries.

TTHE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (IOM) REPORT TO ERR IS Human: Building a Safer Health System called for voluntary and mandatory reporting systems to identify and learn from errors in health care. That report and other recent efforts to improve patient safety have focused their attention on medical errors. However, patient safety also may be approached by concentrating on the injury itself. Both appr...

Quantum networks: where should we be heading?

Quantumkey distribution network has become a reality in practical environment. Quantum repeaters have been explored in various physical systems and their combinations. For practical use of them, these newparadigmsmust be combinedwith existing or emerging infrastructures of communication and security systems. In this article, we discussed howquantumnetwork can be combinedwith modern cryptographi...