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    committee consists of about three to four members who all are experts in the designated subject. Through FMEA the committee helps develop action plans to reduce the risk of failure (Quality-One, 2011). RCA is an investigation that occurs after a sentinel event that is unexpected. Through the RCA you are looking to find out why did an event occur or not occur, how the event happened, and how to prevent additional events for occurring (VA National Center for Patient Safety, 2015).

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    User Friendly Hash Values

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    H.C Hsiao, Y.H Lin, et al. [1] projected a study of user-friendly hash that describes some schemes which are quickest and most accurate. In this study, Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters are compared with each other for using them as hash values. It had described the strength and weakness of each scheme. Wang Qian, Cong Wang, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou and Jin Li [2] explained regarding the storage service provider. Data Storage System would attempt to hide the errors like data lost during relocation

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    otolaryngologists (40% of patients had stage III or IV when first evaluated), while 98% have squamous cell carcinoma (the most common pathological type); in addition, the incidence of lymph node metastasis depends on the tumour stage (30% for T4 lesions).1 Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) as an investigational tool in treatment of the clinical N0 neck aiming to prevent morbidity associ-ated with elective neck dissection, but up to date and our knowl-edge, there is no studies that have been reported on the

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    Abstract This paper looks at software developments projects in bureaucratic government environment. It will focus mainly on the FBI Sentinel project and its development. It will look at the failures that the project has faced, the size of teams, the project management, and the financials of the project. Lastly, it will take a look at what factors lead to the success of the project. Introduction April 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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    fought hard for his freedom’ Sun Sentinel talks about Jose Fernandez’s struggle for freedom. “He made four attempts to leave Cuba for the United States before succeeding by boat along with his mother when he was 15.” (Sun Sentinel), as Jose was growing up he had very little freedom while living in Cuba. Sentinel says that Jose would tell David Samson “He always would tell me that: ‘You were born into freedom, you don’t understand freedom really.” (Sun Sentinel), this proves that he had to work

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    fingerprinting healthcare providers can access critical information such as allergies and blood type. Other information that can be accessed includes current medications, patient demographics, next of kin or emergency contact, and medical history (American Sentinel University, 2014). Biometric fingerprinting can be useful with medical information exchange with biometric fingerprinting we are able to share and verify patient information. This is especially helpful

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    Accredation Audit

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    Accreditation Audit Task 2 Sentinel Event Western Governors University Accreditation Audit Task 2 Sentinel Event Nightingale is a well establish Community Hospital, which has been servicing the community by providing excellent, and compassionate healthcare provides for their patients’ needs. There values statement pledge to themselves and the community, is a commitment to four core values the first being Safety with the quote “We put our patients first”. A1 Sentinel Event As defined by the

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    Service Line Development

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    Sentinel Event: Sentinel events are a subset of medical adverse events. Events that require immediate attention are called Sentinel Events. Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase “or the risk thereof” includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome

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    alarm systems pose a hazard to patient safety (TJC, 2014; Lukasewicz & Anderson, 2015). The Joint Commission (TJC) issued a Sentinel Event Alert in 2013 on device alarm safety which subsequently led to the creation of the National Patient Safety Goal 06.01.01 (TJC, 2014). The alert and goal was published with an aim at acute care hospitals because of reported adverse and sentinel patient events and data that related to the nature of these events, indicating there is significant risk related to clinical

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    Hiv Prevalence--Ghana

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    with generalized HIV epidemics, the estimates of HIV prevalence in Ghana is primarily based on sentinel surveillance among pregnant women attending Antenatal Care (ANC) clinics and a national population based survey that includes HIV testing. It is recognized that both sentinel surveillance and population-based surveys each have strengths and weaknesses but together provide complementary information. Sentinel surveillance provides samples that are consistent over time so that good estimates of HIV trends

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