BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

BACKGROUND In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. DISCUSSION This article...

We describe the implementation of a pilot project to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of providing PrePex circumcision from a mobile clinic. We analyzed available project diary entries and staff meeting minutes to identify challenges encountered. The main challenges identified were (1) daily time constraints because of setting up procedures, (2) transportation logistics for clients when t...

An ecological pilot project for the control of Triatoma dimidiata allowed a new evaluation four and five years after environmental modifications in the peridomestic areas of 20 households. It was verified that the two groups of houses, 10 case-houses and 10 control-houses, were free of insects after those periods of time. In the first group, the owners started a chicken coop in the backyard and...

Senior students in an information technology (IT) program at a university in southeastern United States participate in a capstone project management course to graduate. Student teams develop and manage information technology-related service learning projects for community partners who have needs for IT products such as websites, databases, computer training, etc. In spring 2008, one capstone te...

CONTEXT Diabetes is a chronic long-term disease with an increasing incidence. There is a need to increase access to effective care and to ensure such care is delivered as locally as possible. The geographical spread of NHS Highland Scotland presents additional challenges to ensuring a skilled workforce given education is normally work-based tuition and assessment. The aim of this pilot project ...

THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE KENTUCKY PILOT PROJECT OF ALLOWING PRIMARY PCI AT HOSPITALS WITHOUT ONSITE CABG

Problems that present project managers have to deal with are more and more concerning complexity, i.e. unexpected, uncertain, unstable or unique situations. This seems also the case with sustainable building projects. It is therefore necessary that project managers are trained to deal with these problems, especially by learning from their performance. In this article we motivate why and propose...

About 10 years ago informatics teacher training did not seem to be too productive. Even though many students graduated, most of them chose well paid jobs as IT specialists rather than underpaid teacher positions in Hungary. What is then the reason for striving to provide the most up-to-date technology and methodology for future teachers who will never be able to transfer their gained knowledge ...