Judgments on Medical Accidents Related to Accountability

Accountability, Task Characteristics and Audit Judgments

This study attempts to examine the effects of task characteristics and accountability on audit judgment. We found that when the audit task is less structured, such as in analytical reviews, auditors will manifest an attitudinal shift toward the preference of the agent to whom they are accountable. When the audit task is structured such as in internal control evaluations, an attitudinal shift wi...

Programmable electronic medical systems - related risks and learning from accidents

out being hospitalized. More patients stay at home – or at least outside the reach of health-care providers – for self-treatment, in which they use medical devices, such as dialysis or insulin injector implants. Remote diagnosis and even treatment is already being applied for specific forms of illness, for example cardiac failure problems, in the sense of telemedicine or even telesurgery. Risks...

Patterns of traffic accidents and violations related to drinking and to some medical conditions.

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

Vehicle accidents related to sleep: a review.

UNLABELLED Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of lorries, goods vehicles, and company cars. Time of day (circadian) effects are profound, with sleepiness being particularly evident during night shift work, and driving home afterwards. Circa...