STRANGE INCIDENTS IN PRACTICE,

Managing Clinical Incidents in General Practice

Clinical incident in general practice can be potentially harmful, costly and even fatal. Studies in general practice in Australia have shown that over three quarter of these incidents are preventable [Bhasale et. al. 1998]. We describe in this paper a holistic model which amalgamates three knowledge management methodologies (ontological, rulebased, and causal) and case based reasoning to provid...

Aggregate Analysis of Pediatric Medication Incidents in Community Pharmacy Practice

Nursing care in disasters and incidents

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Oncogenic osteomalacia: strange tumours in strange places.

Two patients presented with hypophosphataemic osteomalacia and were subsequently found to have small tumours unusual histopathology and location causing the osteomalacia. Each tumour was found after an intensive search for occult masses. Studies of vitamin D metabolism and renal tubular function before and after surgery yielded further insight into the pathophysiology of oncogenic osteomalacia....

Recognising adverse events and critical incidents in medical practice in a district general hospital.

A pilot audit of case records of consecutively discharged patients from a district general hospital was undertaken by specialist registrars, SHOs and senior nurses in order to identify adverse events (AEs) and critical incidents (CIs) related to hospital care. Experienced external assessors taught the clinical staff to use a previously validated structured method of case record review that faci...