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AI in Fighting against COVID-19
Published in Fadi Al-Turjman, AI-Powered IoT for COVID-19, 2020
Deepanshu Srivastava, S. Rakeshkumar, N. Gayathri, Fadi Al-Turjman
COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets of infected individuals from coughing, sneezing, etc.; close contact with an infected person (within 6 feet); and possibly through contact with infected surfaces or objects, then touching of the mouth, nose, or eyes. Carelessness by any of us can lead to a serious outcome for the society, city, state, and then to whole country [1,2] (Figure 10.1).
Psychiatry in contexts
Published in Gerrit Glas, Person-Centered Care in Psychiatry, 2019
Safety is an issue that is not restricted to the consulting room (micro-sphere); it is also and typically relevant to institutional (meso-level) and public health (macro-level) concerns. It refers to the role of internal rules within healthcare facilities (meso-level) and the role of supervisory bodies (macro-level). Today’s obsession with safety is partially occasioned by carelessness in the healthcare sector itself (side-effects of medication and medical failures because of lack of communication between doctors and those who depend on their information). But it is also a societal phenomenon. Sociologist UIrich Beck (1992) calls our society a “risk society.” We increasingly try to avoid risk, despite the relative physical and economic safety of Western lives.
Islamic Medicine
Published in Charles Greene Cumston, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 2018
In a.d. 931 an event occurred which shows how much medicine had developed in Bagdad, and also that it gave Tise to medico-legal enactments. A patient had died from the carelessness of his physician. The Khalif decided that from that time on nobody should practise medicine unless he had been examined by Sinan ibn Thabit, physician-in-chief at the Bagdad hospital.
The effect of personal protective equipment use on nurses’ tendencies to make medical errors and types of their medical errors: a cross-sectional study
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Cennet Çiriş Yildiz, Dilek Yildirim, Kardelen Günay
The greatest duty falls upon nurses in preventing medical errors in health institutions. As nurses play a key role in patient care because of the tasks in their job description, they work in almost every phase of efforts to improve the health of patients regarding their disease status [2,6]. Additionally, it has been determined that nurses face a higher risk of making medical errors compared to other professions. The most important causes of these medical errors have been reported as inadequacy in applying care standards, inadequacy in practices related to patient safety and protection, inadequacy in keeping records, carelessness, not obeying instructions and regulations, imbalance in the nurse/patient ratio, work overload, shift work, inexperience in the profession, insufficient number of nurses and lack of communication [1,2].
Evaluation of the relationship between burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress levels of primary health-care workers (Center Anatolia)
Published in Alexandria Journal of Medicine, 2021
İrem Akova, Öznur Hasdemir, Esma Kiliç
Primary health care is the basis of all health services. Failure or inefficiency of primary health-care services may result in failure of the entire health system [20]. In order to prevent this failure, burnout levels of primary health-care workers should be determined. At the same time, negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, and stress that negatively affect mental and physical health need to be seriously emphasized. Research shows that health workers can provide high-quality health-care services by preventing burnout and also shows that health institutions have an important role in achieving their goals by reducing the risks that may arise from the reluctance and carelessness toward burnout [1–3,20,21]. In a study evaluating depression, anxiety, and stress in intern physicians in Australia, depression was found to be 53%, anxiety 46%, and stress 51% [22]. In another study, it was found that midwives had mod/severe/extreme depression (17%), anxiety (20.5%), and stress (22%) symptoms [23]. Maharaj et al. [24] had found that the prevalence rates of depression, anxiety, and stress were 32.4%, 41.2%, and 41.2%, respectively, in nurses.
Insiders and Outsiders: Lessons for Neuroethics from the History of Bioethics
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2020
Beecher then described cases in which effective treatments were knowingly withheld from patients with life-threatening illnesses, in which drug toxicity was repeatedly tested in children, and in which physiological mechanisms were investigated via medically unnecessary procedures, among others. Yet he went on to assert, whether naively or disingenuously, that “thoughtlessness and carelessness, not a willful disregard of the patient’s rights, account for most of the cases encountered.” Beecher still assumed that human subjects protection would depend mainly upon the professional integrity of investigators, and did not yet envision empowering patient-subjects or external oversight (Miller 2012; Rothman 1991).