OC-006 Setting up a centralised decontamination service: lessons learnt

Lessons learnt from errors in radiotherapy centers

Background: The purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. This work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...

Setting up a transoesophageal echocardiography service.

Implementing a centralised pharmacovigilance service in a non-commercial setting in the United Kingdom

The implementation of a pharmacovigilance service compliant with the legal and regulatory responsibilities of clinical trial sponsors presents particular challenges for sponsors in a non-commercial setting.In this paper we examine these challenges in detail. We identify and discuss the key steps in the development of a pharmacovigilance service within a public health service and university sett...

Delusional parasitosis: lessons learnt.

Delusional parasitosis manifests in the patient's firm belief that they have skin symptoms due to an infestation with insects. Patients often refuse to seek psychiatric care. This study reassessed patients with delusional parasitosis in order to review and learn from them, which is important due to the significant morbidity of this condition and the therapeutic difficulties it presents to the d...

Teaching Clouds: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learnt

In this Chapter, we discuss the scope, content, and technical challenges offered up in the construction and delivery of a 10 week long Cloud Computing module that combines discussions of the principles and key characteristics of Cloud Computing with a series of practical exercises and an implementation-based coursework. We present an overview of the core of this module, which starts from the So...