The National Cancer Institute has concluded that studies indicate a causal relationship between exposure to depictions of smoking in movies and youth smoking initiation. Adolescents in the top quartile of exposures to onscreen tobacco incidents have been found to be approximately twice as likely to begin smoking as those in the bottom quartile. The 2010 U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi...

A prospective study was undertaken in an effort to determine the usefulness of the end-tidal carbon dioxide monitor in detecting anesthesia-related critical incidents. The critical incident technique was employed in the evaluation of 2,334 anesthetics. Anesthesia providers completed a critical incident questionnaire following each anesthetic. All questionnaires were analyzed for the occurrence ...

Today, many end systems are infected with malicious software (malware). Often, infections will last for a long time due to missing (automated) detection or insufficient user knowledge. Even large organizations usually do not have the necessary security staff to handle all affected computers. Obviously, automated infections with malicious software cannot be handled by manual repair; new approach...

OBJECTIVE This study explores how alcohol use is incorporated in the lives of young adolescents in the Netherlands. To this end, critical incidents involving alcohol use situations are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the consequences associated with alcohol use, the role of the parents, and the way adolescents evaluate incidents and link them to behavioral intentions. METHOD Data were ...

A simulation model was constructed to assess the relative costs and cost-effectiveness of different screening and vaccination strategies for dealing with hospital incidents of varicella exposure, compared with current policies, using data from published sources and a hospital survey. The mean number of incidents per hospital year was 3.9, and the mean annual cost of managing these incidents was...

BACKGROUND Incident reporting systems are widely considered effective instruments for learning from incidents. However, research shows that many incidents are not reported by healthcare providers. OBJECTIVE The lack of theoretical foundation in research on barriers to and motivators for incident reporting is addressed in this article, and a psychological framework of antecedents to staff's mo...

Emergency organizations have contingency plans, which define responsibilities, resources, and actions to be performed in an emergency situation. However, unexpected incidents may arise and cause additional difficulty in the emergency control process. The knowledge that team members develop to deal with these incidents and keep the system 'functioning' improves resilience and response and is ver...

Hendra virus, a novel and fatally zoonotic member of the family Paramyxoviridae, was first described in Australia in 1994. Periodic spillover from its natural host (fruit bats) results in catastrophic disease in horses and occasionally the subsequent infection of humans. Prior to 2011, 14 equine incidents involving seven human cases (four fatal) were recorded. The year 2011 saw a dramatic depar...

BACKGROUND The safety and protection of patients and health care workers is of paramount importance in dentistry, and this includes students in training who provide clinical care. Given the nature of dental care, adverse incidents can and do occur, exposing health care workers to body fluids and putting them at risk of infection, including contracting a blood-borne virus. The aim of this resear...