BACKGROUND Adverse-event incident disclosure is gaining international attention as being central to incident management, practice improvement, and public engagement, but those charged with its execution are experiencing barriers. Findings have emerged from two large studies: an evaluation of the 2006-2008 Australian Open Disclosure Pilot, and a 2009-2010 study of patients' and relatives' views ...

BACKGROUND First-trimester nuchal translucency (NT) and second-trimester triple test (TT) are common screening programmes for trisomy 21. The aim of this study was to compare disclosure and non-disclosure approaches of combining those tests. METHODS Likelihood ratios of both NT and TT tests, among 508 normal and 23 trisomy 21-affected pregnancies, were used for calculating population-adjusted...

Sharing of log data is a valuable step towards the improvement of network security. However, logs often contain sensitive information and organizations are hesitant to share them. Anonymization methods are used for increasing protection, lowering the disclosure risk to a level considered safe. Accordingly, a metric for anonymity is necessary to quantitatively assess the risk before releasing lo...

Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic risk falls as government stability and respect for the rule of law improve. Idiosyncratic risk is positi...

This study examines the effect of managerial ability on subsequent stock price crash risk using listed firm data in Korea. Compared to some financially advanced countries, the influence of managers is particularly more powerful in Korea, as ownership and management are not effectively separate in most Korean firms. In addition, we considered the effect of large business groups called Chaebol, w...

In this paper we give an overview on the application of aggregation operators in data privacy. Applications include data protection methods, as microaggregation, as well as measures to evaluate in what extent data is perturbated information loss measures and satisfy privacy requirements disclosure risk measures. URL http://www.springerlink.com/content/c543r3105nll5721/ [8] Source URL: https://w...

1. The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has recently assembled a team of statistical researchers from multiple universities who, working with statisticians in U.S. statistical agencies, are developing a Webbased query system for statistical databases. Their goal is a system that allows the use of disclosure limitation methods (e.g., see Willenborg and de Waal 1996; 2000) applied seque...

Two experiments examine how message framing moderates consumer responses to product risk information. The findings suggest that contrary to an influential theory, consumers exposed to loss-framed messages exhibit a general aversion to product risk involving both short-term adverse effects and more permanent harm. In contrast, consumers exposed to gain-framed messages differentiate among differe...

Protection against disclosure is important for statistical agencies releasing microdata files from sample surveys. Estimates of simple measures of disclosure risk can provide useful evidence to support decisions about release. We propose a new measure of disclosure risk: the probability that a unique match between a microdata record and a population unit is correct. We argue that this measure h...