How to Reduce Errors of Distance Fault Locating Algorithms

Color coding to reduce errors.

A review of the psychological effects of isolation and how to reduce it (systematic review)

Quarantine may cause psychological side effects. The aim of this study was to review the psychological effects of quarantine and how to reduce them (systematic study). Keywords of stress, anxiety, and quarantine were searched in electronic databases of national and international scientific Journals from the year 2005 to 2019. Most of the studied studies have reported negative psychological effe...

How to Reason about Self-Locating Belief

When reasoning about self-locating belief, one should reason as if one were a randomly selected bit of information. This principle can be considered to be an application of Bostrom’s Strong Self-Sampling Assumption(SSSA)[2] according to which one should reason as if one were a randomly selected element of some suitable reference class of observer-moments. The reference class is the class of all...

Unnecessary Brain CT scan of Traumatic Pediatric Patients; How to Reduce the Numbers?

There are considerable rates of pediatrics trauma referring emergency department following a traumatic event. The worried parents are requesting for the most sensitive diagnostic test, so emergency physicians ask them to underwent brain computed tomography (CT) scan. Lower threshold of decision making regarding use of brain CT scan results in huge number of normal imaging. On the other hand, ra...

Quality Improvement Checklists to Reduce Diagnostic Errors

Diagnostic errors are common and can often be traced to physicians’ cognitive biases and failed heuristics (mental shortcuts). A great deal is known about how these faulty thinking processes lead to error, but little is known about how to prevent them. Faulty thinking plagues other high-risk, high-reliability professions, such as airline pilots and nuclear plant operators, but these professions...