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Read this book in order to learn: · Why medicines often fail to produce the desired result and how such failures can be avoided · How to think about drug product safety and effectiveness · How the main participants in a medications use system can improve outcomes and how professional and personal values, attitudes, and ethical reasoning fit into drug therapy · What a properly designed and managed medications use system would look like - specific components, how the components fit together into a system, and how the system can be maintained and improved · Ways to evaluate medications use systems, how to recognize ineffective systems operations, how to identify missing system components and how to correct them · How the environment of medications use affects systems operations and patient outcomes, and why standards must change to improve drug safety and effectiveness
Drug-related illnesses and complications cost the health care system billions of dollars each year. Medical errors account for approximately 100,000 deaths each year, and drugs are the most common cause of medical errors in hospitals. Synthesizing research studies from seven nations, Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach explores medications use from a social perspective. It identifies and describes the preventable adverse outcomes of drug therapy, discusses the safety, cost-effectiveness, and quality of medications use from a management systems perspective, and proposes systematic solutions.
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Birch (Paperback)
Richard Segal
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Discovery Miles 6 050
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On or about the 6th of April 2010, the Icelandic volcano known as
Eyjafjallajokull began quietly churning and four days later, in an
act of super-human magnanimity, Europe's governments opted en masse
to close their air space indefinitely, marking the most-massive
interruption to routine transportation in sixty five years and more
poignantly, approximating the first time its many leaders had acted
in unison against a common enemy, no less so quickly. Roughly
100,000 travelers were stranded, including you guessed it, us.
Never has a plume of volcanic ash so punched above its weight, but
when scientific expert after instant expert was paraded before TV
24 News, the universal response was "we just don't know." This is
the story of near-freaking in the face of adversity and throwing
caution to the wind, and getting back home by train, plane and
virtually every other mode of transportation except pantomime
circus elephant, while fighting against the Big Machine at every
opportunity, mixed metaphors and all."
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger; I want to become very
strong. The Day the Muses Died brings together many themes and
elements of my short stories, books and novellas, from special
interests, lovers and friends don't you know, we pray when it
counts, we tale-tell for show. But wait, there's more. Aside from
the poetry of life's true despair, a maxim or two and a vendetta to
air. Not so much a journey but a recap for when we are older,
recanted with flair and a fair wind blowing over our shoulder. The
villains, the heroes, will they live to see the day? Read the book,
you'll find out, the book, you don't say. I'm so out of words, I've
tossed them all in, now or never choose verbs, may the best some
day win. The Day the Muses Died you may find, represents one final
perfect moment, frozen in time.
It is often said that childhood maketh the man. Maybe or maybe not,
but it's definitely good source material for amusing stories. From
characters such as pre-teen lumberjack in science class and aunt
who doesn't believe she will age beyond 29, to Richard himself, an
accidental insomniac, who was destined for a career as stand-up
comic and newspaper humorist, after half a career gathering
'anecdotes' in a nine to five job. As could many of us, given the
absurdities of it all, but there's plenty of time to think and
compose when you're awake half the night. A short summer assignment
brings him to London where he has to cope with, you guessed it,
more freaks and despair, as he tries to escape into his local pub's
paperback selection. However, he can't quite get comfortable in his
own skin, at all. Was he born that way, or did something set him
off? Richard's Eleven calls to mind top selling books dealing with
depression, but this is how he'd have doodled one of them, shorter
and to the point. This is a spiritual journey arguably better to
watch than to live, but can mass transit be passive aggressive and
can depressed people be funnier than normal people? Read on.
Return of the Drama Prince is the sequel to 2011's Nectar of the
Lavender, fifteen years down the road. Rather than young, single,
and gainfully employed, our main character is married with three
children and now freelances, but in a most unexpected industrial
pursuit. He has outgrown depression but has been unable to tackle
in his mind sources of his inner social and professional conflict.
He's outwardly relaxed and life should be fine, but he can't escape
the Doldrums, and he fears he may run out of time before they
envelop him. This condition he masks through exaggerated courtesy
and friendliness, the opposite of his no-holds-barred approach to
mediocrity and misanthropism when younger. Rather than society
thugs obliging a fire-with-fire plan of attack, the new battle is
against the passive aggressive, those with "glupie" tendencies and
enemies of civility and efficiency. If you choose to fight city
hall, the fight may never end. His decadence-era relationships are
over, replaced by friendships with straighter-laced family men and
white-collar workers of his bedroom community, including the
bleeding heart conservative Lanford, public relations advisor to
stars and bars, with occasional PR problems of his own. The in-laws
visit, but this is opportunity rather than threat or worry. In
confronting his demons, he revisits painful memories, and for ease
of vanquishing, or so he thinks, he rolls them all into two. There
is no lack of sensations uncovered during this journey, during
which he comes into contact with a true American quilt.
Three Days in July is the tale of a ten-year journey to discover
one's roots. From a London base, I scouted and scoured databases,
joined ancestry forums and corresponded with archives in numerous
countries, sometimes successfully. However, nothing can compare
with understanding the land first hand. Accordingly, when I had
time to spare this summer, I flew to Lithuania and rented a car,
with a mission to absorb history with the aid of a contemporary
personal lens and a smartphone, but no maps. Buy the ticket, take
the ride. But wait, there's more. If one portion of the family was
daring enough to live in 18th and 19th Century Belarus, I should be
plucky enough to experience its 21st Century equivalent, no matter
how many concentric mental loop-de-loops this entailed thanks to
practice makes perfect bureaucratic madness. I encountered subtle
reminders of civilizations past and common small urban emotions
from my mostly rural upbringing to go with the tangible memories of
understated national day celebrations, baby lambies acclimatizing
themselves to the world in nature-ideal manor parks, and Belarusian
crickets pleading for mercy in the blistering summer heat, as if
all chronicled by an imaginary videographer. This is not your great
grandfather's trip down memory lane or a meticulous depiction of a
determined genealogy sleuth in for the long haul with nary the
light by a miner's helmet to guide him. For one, I couldn't do it
that way. For another, I didn't take any notes. This is the
fictionalized version and on both counts, I think it's better that
way.
Think yourself alive. The Victory Walk tells the story of one man's
long struggle for the rights of the silent majority, told through
the eyes of an idealistic yet practical part-time right hand man,
who in the era of digital democracy, performs this role remotely.
However, the Movement is but his evening and weekend devotion. Nine
to five, he thrives in the dry world of municipal finance advisory,
with podmates Gregory and Cameron, increasingly for county finance
departments in Northern California, where he meets his match. The
Victory Walk criss-crosses the United States in search of tactics
and strategies to dislodge the entrenched special interests that
have cornered the market for opportunity, and fill the vacuum
instead with true fairness. This is the true story of the American
dream, in all senses of the word. Can one person change the world?
Yes, if we are all that one person.
A recently unemployed man wracked by the guilt of his best friend's
suicide seeks revenge against those he believes are culpable. Armed
with just a hard-drive, he must search for clues to take on the
notorious Negatory Nine, the white collar thugs he holds
responsible for Jeff's untimely death. On his emotional journey he
addresses his own psychological scars through the cameo appearances
of eccentric and colourful characters who help remind him of life's
little pleasures. Ultimately he must decide whether he wants to
sacrifice peace of mind in the pursuit of Jeff's honour, and
whether the journey is more valuable than the destination. Nectar
of the Lavender is an exciting account of one man's interpretation
of the world he exists in, and resolves the question of whether
society's domineering bullies can get away with committing
violations without remorse.
THE GREAT ART DECO CHASE, part prequel to 2011's Nectar of the
Lavender, traces our main character's relationships with the best
and worst friends from his post formative years, including those
also choosing to relocate from their small northeastern city to
metro New York. If possible, there are more quirky characters and
intense poetry than ever, breeding ground for more adventures than
ever. As we learned in Nectar, he struggles to understand the
passing of Jeff and Danny, and although his Malaysian-Caribbean
friend Jimmy and Anglo-American friend Big Bad Bill fill in
admirably, the balance isn't quite right, because across the verge,
there remains Carol Gary, Weird Andy, and Danny's ex-wife Robin, of
which more anon. And then there's Lauren, Kathy, and the rest of
his social life, which is complicated on quiet days. Everyone would
want to be him, and yet no one would. In a separate alternating
side plot, or possibly main plot, we read of the story of Maury and
Sam, two boys who became best friends in the 1930s, who parted as
teenagers after Sam's parents moved to a bigger city in search of
better educations. Both seek and find their fortunes-Maury as a
specialized manufacturer in the Midwest, Sam as a charismatic
composer and conductor all of America wishes it could claim. On a
more personal note, this book is largely based on notes and
correspondence from a time which was long ago and far away, and
I've taken the liberty to cite some verbatim.
To serve society or humanity? It's been fourteen years since the
basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber
Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond
recognition. Fran is fresh off a two-year sabbatical, during which
he tended to 11-year-old Ben, the family comedian, and 17-year-old
Alice, with, yes, as much attitude as you'd expect. His estranged
boss Karl has retired and Fran must learn to deal with the new
brass - no small task itself.His first assignment is to investigate
an act of alleged political corruption which seems more wild goose
chase than duck in a barrel, leading him to question his decision
to return to work. After an extended-family culinary expedition to
Budapest, Fran's nine-to-five job takes him 'almost' to Albany and
to Central America, where he must untangle the mother of all webs.
His wife, local family doctor Darby, goes along for the ride, and,
oh, pi a coladas "to die for." For a detective and amateur gourmet
chef like no other, Cookbook for a New Europe is a ride Fran
certainly didn't expect. He's been fiercely focused for years, but
a spate of unintended yet momentous events unfolds once he gives
free rein to his emotions, and his recipes.
Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies: Data, Text and Web
Mining Applications is a comprehensive reference on concepts,
algorithms, theories, applications, software, and visualization of
data mining, text mining, Web mining and computing/supercomputing.
This publication provides a coherent set of related works on the
state-of-the-art of the theory and applications of mining, making
it a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, professionals
and intellectuals in technical and non-technical fields.
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