Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians, capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more accountable to their patients. - But how can clinicians tell whether a guideline has authority, and whether or not it should be followed? - Does the law protect docto...

Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come from, where they are now, and how they might develop in the future. There is coverage of...

Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences, Second Edition is an accessible guide to commonly used concepts and methods in statistical analysis used in the physical sciences. This brief yet systematic introduction explains the origin of key techniques, providing mathematical background and useful formulas. The text does not assume any background in statistics and is appropriate for a wide-variety of readers, from first-year undergraduate students to working scientists across many dis...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health care settings, and strategies for minimizing errors and their harmful consequences to patients. Written by leading authorities, it discusses the practical issues involved in reducing errors in h...

Et godt job, en fin lejlighed i Los Angeles, et helt almindeligt liv. Endelig er det lykkedes Nick Horrigan at lægge fortiden og mordet på sin stedfar, Secret Service-agenten Frank, bag sig. Eller det troede han i hvert fald, lige indtil den nat han bliver vækket af et SWAT-team, der trænger ind i hans lejlighed og fører ham ud til en ventende helikopter.En terrorist har taget kontrol over et atomkraftværk og truer med at sprænge det i luften, medmindre han får lov til at tale med ...

Et godt job, en fin lejlighed i Los Angeles, et helt almindeligt liv. Endelig er det lykkedes Nick Horrigan at lægge fortiden og mordet på sin stedfar, Secret Service-agenten Frank, bag sig. Eller det troede han i hvert fald, lige indtil den nat han bliver vækket af et SWAT-team, der trænger ind i hans lejlighed og fører ham ud til en ventende helikopter.En terrorist har taget kontrol over et atomkraftværk og truer med at sprænge det i luften, medmindre han får lov til at tale med ...