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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533702/song-wind-and-mayhem-the-indiana-state-fair-stage-collapse
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Randy R Rapp
The study of planning and execution failures resulting in disastrous outcomes for public events often offers much value when preparing for similar future events. While not recent, the lessons learned from the Indiana State Fair stage collapse of 2011 remain especially pertinent, due to thorough technical and managerial forensic investigations and their rigorous examination during subsequent litigation about the fatal event. Continued concern about life safety and inconsistent building code enforcement and design guidance for publicly occupied temporary structures, eg, outdoor stages, recently drew recommended changes by the International Code Council for the 2024 edition of the International Building Code...
2024: Journal of Emergency Management: JEM
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533313/beyond-divest-vs-engage-a-review-of-the-role-of-institutional-investors-in-an-inclusive-fossil-fuel-phase-out
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REVIEW
Clara McDonnell, Joyeeta Gupta
Institutional investors, who control as much as $154 trillion globally, may play an important role in shaping the energy transition as major stakeholders in fossil fuel producing, distributing and consuming companies. Research on investors and fossil fuels has focused largely on the divestment movement or on shareholder engagement. However, given their limited success to date, additional strategies to influence the fossil fuel sector are merited. This review paper expands the scope of attention to investors, asking: what strategies for influencing the fossil fuel industry are available to institutional investors and what are the implications of these for achieving an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out? Through a systematic review of 153 papers, we identify seven strategies for influencing the fossil fuel phase-out: divestment, shareholder engagement, hiring practices, engaging the financial sector, engaging indirect financial actors, litigation, and green investment...
2024: Clim Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38526358/-shared-decision-making-in-metaclinical-medicine-from-informed-consent-to-shared-probability
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Franco Cosmi, Barbara Tarquini, Beatrice Mariottoni, Deborah Cosmi
At the dawn of "metaclinical medicine" era, shared decision-making represents the overcoming of modern medicine guidelines and classical medicine experience. The patient's life plan, the doctor's health plan, the scientist's evidence-based plan, the administrator's plan and the beliefs of the society for healthcare options should be integrated into the shared decision-making process to avoid patient's unrealistic expectations, doctor's self-referential and defensive medicine, the science without compassion of the scientist, the administered medicine of the politician, the herd mentality of artificial intelligence...
April 2024: Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38520197/opinions-of-uk-general-dental-practitioners-on-the-restoration-of-posterior-root-filled-teeth-a-vignette-survey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dariusz Kasperek, Afzal Haque, Sondos Albadri, Fadi Jarad
OBJECTIVE: To investigate factors which influence UK general dental practitioners (GDPs) when restoring posterior root filled teeth. METHOD: An electronic survey was designed to explore current strategies of treatment of posterior root filled teeth by UK-based GDPs working in primary care. Three vignette cases included in the questionnaire explored a variety of tooth, patient, and financial factors. The survey was distributed by email and social media platforms between December 2018 and February 2019...
March 2024: Primary Dental Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38512167/the-brain-under-sexual-attack-a-brief-report-on-neurobiological-disturbances-in-trauma-memory
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kelly Dixon
OBJECTIVE: The pathway from experiencing sexual assault to successful prosecution of sexual assault cases is plagued by complicated and myriad factors, resulting in suboptimal outcomes for both survivors and judicial systems. In particular, disturbance of posttraumatic memory recall under stressful circumstances can negatively impact the veracity of survivor testimony. METHOD: This brief report integrates empirical findings from studies of trauma memory disturbance, and more specifically the impacts of glucocorticoid activation in sexual assault memory, contextualizing through the lens of implications for sexual assault litigation...
March 21, 2024: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38508615/perceptions-and-experiences-of-paramedics-managing-people-with-non-traumatic-low-back-pain-a-qualitative-study-of-australian-paramedics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon P Vella, Paul Simpson, Jason C Bendall, Kristen Pickles, Tessa Copp, Michael S Swain, Christopher G Maher, Gustavo C Machado
BACKGROUND: Paramedics are often first providers of care to patients experiencing non-traumatic low back pain (LBP), though their perspectives and experiences with managing these cases remain unclear. OBJECTIVES: This study explored paramedic views of the management of non-traumatic LBP including their role and experience with LBP management, barriers to referral and awareness of ambulance service guidelines. DESIGN: Qualitative study using semistructured interviews conducted between January and April 2023...
March 19, 2024: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38504495/neurobiological-evidence-and-criminal-competencies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tianyi Zhang, Ariana Nesbit, Vivek Datta
Neuroimaging and other neurobiological evidences are increasingly introduced in criminal litigation, especially when a neuropsychiatric disorder is suspected. Evaluations of criminal competencies are the most common type of criminal forensic assessment in forensic psychiatry and psychology. Given this, it is critical for forensic evaluators to understand how neuropsychiatric disorders may affect a defendant's criminal competencies and how neurobiological data may be used in competency determinations. This paper reviews the use of neurobiological data, particularly neuroimaging, while considering the limitations and potential misuse of such data in criminal competency evaluations...
March 19, 2024: Behavioral Sciences & the Law
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38487957/residency-requirements-for-medical-aid-in-dying
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Dresser
In 1997, when Oregon became the first U.S. jurisdiction authorizing medical aid in dying (MAID), its law included a requirement that patients be legal residents of the state. Other U.S. jurisdictions legalizing MAID followed Oregon in adopting residency requirements. Recent litigation challenges the legality, as well as the justification, for such requirements. Facing such challenges, Oregon and Vermont eliminated their MAID residency requirements. More states could follow this move, for, in certain circumstances, the U...
March 15, 2024: Hastings Center Report
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38468166/letter-to-the-editor-regarding-medical-malpractice-litigation-after-spine-surgery-in-beijing-between-2013-and-2018
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Satoru Shimizu
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2024: World Neurosurgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38465501/a-narrative-review-of-risk-factors-and-predictors-for-poor-outcome-and-prolonged-recovery-after-a-mild-traumatic-brain-injury
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REVIEW
Ioannis Mavroudis, Ioana-Miruna Balmus, Alin Ciobica, Mihai Hogas
Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) are often caused by a blow to the head or a sudden jolt resulting in a wide range of physical, cognitive, and emotional temporary symptoms. Mild TBI diagnosis can be challenging and most commonly followed by post-concussion syndrome (PCS). When the symptoms are present for more than 3 months, prolonged post-concussive syndrome (PPCS) can be suspected. This review aims to identify and summarize the current status of the knowledge regarding the risk factors and predictors of the recovery from PCS and PPCS...
March 13, 2024: International Journal of Neuroscience
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38462624/disclosure-following-a-medical-error-lessons-learned-from-a-national-initiative-of-workshops-with-patients-healthcare-teams-and-executives
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adi Finkelstein, Mayer Brezis, Amiad Taub, Dana Arad
BACKGROUND: Despite the increase in disclosures of medical errors, transparency remains a challenge. Recognized barriers include shame, fear of litigation, disciplinary actions, and loss of patient trust. In 2018, the Israeli Ministry of Health initiated a series of workshops about disclosure of medical errors. The workshops involved medical center executives, healthcare providers, patients, and family members of patients who had previously been harmed by a medical error. This study presents the lessons learned about perceived challenges in disclosure of errors in 15 such workshops...
March 11, 2024: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38460442/patients-and-doctors-views-and-experiences-of-the-patient-safety-trajectory-of-breast-cancer-care
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Clara Forrest, Martin J O'Sullivan, Max Ryan, Colm O'Tuathaigh, Tara Jane Browne, Kathy Rock, Mary Jane O'Leary, Deirdre Madden, Seamus O'Reilly
INTRODUCTION: Successful breast cancer outcomes can be jeopardised by adverse events. Understanding and integrating patients' and doctors' perspectives into care trajectories could improve patient safety. This study assessed their views on, and experiences of, medical error and patient safety. METHODS: A cross-sectional, quantitative 20-40 item questionnaire for patients attending Cork University Hospital Cancer Centre and breast cancer doctors in the Republic of Ireland was developed...
February 29, 2024: Breast: Official Journal of the European Society of Mastology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38454748/a-comprehensive-analysis-of-litigation-in-organ-transplantation-for-allegations-of-insufficient-policy-coverage-discrimination-and-malpractice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jacob Mago, Mihir Tandon, Naoru Koizumi, Marissa Firlie, Lauren Fang, Scott Serpico, Alejandro Chiodo Ortiz, Megumi Inoue, Patrick Raymond Baxter, Yang Yu, Monique John, Kassem-Ali Jihad Abbas, Liban Dinka, Obi Ekwenna, Meng-Hao Li, Jorge Ortiz
Introduction: Transplantation is a field with unique medical and administrative challenges that involve an equally diverse array of stakeholders. Expectantly, the litigation stemming from this field should be similarly nuanced. There is a paucity of comprehensive reviews characterizing this medicolegal landscape. Design: The Caselaw Access Project Database was used to collect official court briefs of 2053 lawsuits related to kidney, liver, heart, lung, and pancreas transplantation. A thematic analysis was undertaken to characterize grounds for litigation, defendant type, and outcomes...
March 7, 2024: Progress in Transplantation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38450761/forensic-assessment-of-somatoform-and-functional-neurological-disorders
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vivek Datta, Austin W Blum
Functional neurological disorders (FND) and somatization are common in clinical practice and medicolegal settings. These conditions are frequently disabling and, if arising following an accident, may lead to claims for legal compensation or occupational disability (such as social security disability insurance). However, distinguishing FND and somatization from symptoms that are intentionally produced (i.e., malingered or factitious) may pose a major forensic psychiatric challenge. In this article, we describe how somatoform disorders and FND lie along a spectrum of abnormal illness-related behaviors, including factitious disorder, compensation neurosis, and malingering...
March 7, 2024: Behavioral Sciences & the Law
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38450134/medical-errors-affected-sites-and-adverse-consequences-among-patients-in-the-orthopaedic-department-does-age-matter
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paicheng Liu, Jianxin Cheng, Yuxuan Yang, Haipeng Zhu
BACKGROUND: Orthopaedics have become the focus of research on patient safety due to the high incidence of medical errors. Previous studies were based on all orthopaedic patients and rarely conducted empirical analyses from the perspective of age. This study aimed to fill the academic gap in the age variable by comparing medical errors, affected sites, and adverse consequences in orthopaedic patients. METHODS: This retrospective study included 329 litigation claims against orthopaedists using data from China Judgments Online...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38446730/how-inpatient-psychiatric-units-can-be-both-safe-and-therapeutic
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matthew L Edwards, Nathaniel P Morris
Inpatient psychiatric units should be therapeutic environments that support dignity and recovery. When adverse outcomes (eg, self-harm, violence) happen in these settings, clinicians and administrators can face litigation and other pressures to prioritize risk management over supporting patients' access to personal belongings, exercise equipment, and private spaces. This article describes these downward pressures toward sparser, controlling environments in inpatient psychiatric settings as a safety funnel and suggests strategies for balancing safety, humanity, and recovery in these contexts...
March 1, 2024: AMA Journal of Ethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38446517/be-careful-about-what-you-wish-for-in-nhs-patient-safety-reform
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
John Tingle, Amanda Cattini
John Tingle and Amanda Cattini discuss some recent reports on potential changes to litigation procedures for patient harm cases and to the Never Events framework.
March 7, 2024: British Journal of Nursing: BJN
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38445709/medical-malpractice-litigation-and-daylight-saving-time
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chenlu Gao, Candice Lage, Michael K Scullin
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Daylight saving time (DST) constitutes a natural quasi-experiment to examine the influence of mild sleep loss and circadian misalignment. We investigated the acute effects of spring transition into DST and the chronic effects of DST (compared to standard time) on medical malpractice claims in the United States over three decades. METHODS: We analyzed 288,432 malpractice claims from the National Practitioner Data Bank. To investigate the acute effects of spring DST transition, we compared medical malpractice incidents/decisions one week before spring DST transition, one week following spring DST transition, and the rest of the year...
March 6, 2024: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: JCSM: Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442073/position-statement-expert-witness-qualifications-and-ethical-guidelines-for-emergency-medical-services-litigation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
W Ann Winnie Maggiore, Ryan C Jacobsen, Douglas F Kupas
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 5, 2024: Prehospital Emergency Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38439506/implications-of-the-mississippi-v-tennessee-supreme-court-decision-for-interstate-groundwater-management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nimisha Wasankar, T Prabhakar Clement
Groundwater allocation is rapidly becoming a contentious water resource management problem around the world. It is anticipated that the effects of climate change would further aggravate this problem. Conflicts over the distribution of freshwater are expected to increase as stakeholders want to access more groundwater to meet their growing demands. In the United States, water conflicts are settled through a litigation process. Water litigations can be expensive, protracted, and fraught with complex legal and technical difficulties...
March 4, 2024: Ground Water
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