Understanding National Patient Safety Goal 2C: Clarity Brings Compliance

The Joint Commission announces 2014 National Patient Safety Goal.

Colour vision brings clarity to shadows.

We have revealed a new role for colour vision in visual scene analysis: colour vision facilitates shadow identification. Shadows are important features of the visual scene, providing information about the shape, depth, and movement of objects. To be useful for perception, however, shadows must be distinguished from other types of luminance variation, principally the variation in object reflecta...

On Credibility, Clarity, and Compliance

Since its inception, MCP has recognized the promise of proteomics and its underlying technologies to significantly move the boundaries of knowledge in biology and medicine. As has been noted (1), proteomics represented a paradigm shift in how experiments were designed and executed and how the resultant data were interpreted and stored. But the journal has also recognized that the value of the p...

The National Patient Safety Agency.

T he National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is a Special Health Authority formed in 2001 to improve patient safety in the NHS across England and Wales. Currently, it has a budget of just over £15 million. The NPSA was created following the publication of two key reports by the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, An organisation with a memory and Building a safer NHS. An organisa...

National patient safety goal #13: patients' active involvement in their own care: preventing chemotherapy extravasation.

233 Lisa Hartkopf Smith, RN, MS, AOCN®, CNS, is an oncology clinical nurse specialist at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Society. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/09.CJON.233-234 National Patient Safety Goal ...