The profession of fire fighting has been long recognized as a dangerous, complex and high-risk occupation. It has been only in the past 25 years, however, that any quantitative data have been ...
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 20, No. 4 (August 2008), pp. 254-263 (10 pages) Objective. To assess the effect of a Crew Resource Management (CRM) intervention specifically ...
An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from medical errors in hospitals and miscommunication is the most common cause of these errors, according to a Sheridan Healthcare blog post. Some hospitals ...
Five years ago, leadership at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., set their sites on reducing surgical errors and complications by improving communication in the operating room. While the ...
Air carriers affected by the final rule must establish initial and recurrent CRM training for crewmembers within two years of the effective date of the rule. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. The Journal's mission is to promote excellence in professional nursing, with a global ...
EUROPE: Portuguese public transport resource management software company SISCOG has announced partnership with VeeOne, a ...
I thought there was a tacit contract among all professional aircrews that can be summed up briefly as, “I agree not to kill you.” Expanded, this contract reads: “I agree that during the approach and ...
On Jan. 15, as reports started trickling in that a U.S. Airways plane had gone down in the Hudson River off Manhattan, the first question that entered many minds was “How many souls were lost?” But ...
Turn back the clock to 1988 and let's review one of our darkest firefighter tragedies that reinforces the need for effective communications under stress. A building that houses an automobile ...