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Health translation represents a critical yet underexplored research field in Translation Studies. High-quality health translation represents an integral part in the development of multicultural health resources. The empirical study and evaluation of health translations, and the establishment of effective health translation methods and models, holds the key to the success of multicultural health communication and promotion. Chapters in this book aim to fill in a persistent knowledge gap in current multicultural health research, that is, culturally effective and user-oriented healthcare translation. Research presented in this book points to an important opportunity to improve and enhance current multicultural healthcare services based on empirical, evidence-based health translation studies. Health translation provides a powerful intervention tool to engage with migrants with diverse language, cultural backgrounds and health literacy levels. This book provides much-needed reading in the emerging research field of healthcare translation. It makes useful and original contributions to this emerging research field through the exploration of culturally effective health translation methods, approaches and models, as well as the development and evaluation of digital health translation resources and tools.

This text gathers the weaknesses revealed during recent infections outbreaks and organizes them into a guide for combating the trends in emerging infections as they relate to hospital preparedness. As the first book to exclusively explore infectious emergencies, the text begins by reviewing potential pathogens and the clinical issues that may threaten hospital safety before delving into the best operational guidelines for commanding a staff under extreme circumstances, including incident command, communication, transport, maintenance, and a myriad of other topics that can remain manageable with proper protocol. Written by experts in the field, this text is the only one that offers the most effective clinical responses to a crisis at every level of care, including special population, laboratory techniques, care of the deceased, behavioral support, and medical documentation. The text concludes by focusing on the reality of care by introducing true examples from the fieldand the lessons gained from these cases.Bioemergency Planning is a vital resource for infectious disease specialists, hospitalists, epidemiologists, internal medicine physicians, nurses, social workers, public health officials, and all medical professionals who need to be prepared to respond to an infection outbreak.

In the United Kingdom there has been increasing attention paid to the needs of cancer patients who present acutely with issues relating to their diagnosis and management, complications of their cancer, complications arising from their treatment, or who require appropriate symptom control or palliative care. There is a substantial service development to ensure that Acute Oncology is appropriately provided in order to improve the outcomes and wellbeing of patients. This book proposes a template that can be used by any professional involved in the planning and delivery of acute oncology care around the world. The book is formally supported by the Association of Cancer Physicians (ACP). This highly patient-centred, readable text will be of value to clinicians, healthcare strategic and operations managers, and doctors in training, in their daily work. Who is it for? Specialists in Oncology | General Physicians | Doctors in Training | Oncology Nurses | Healthcare Managers and Administrators

Occurrence Reporting: Building a Robust Problem Identification and Resolution Process Kenneth Rohde Enhance patient care through effective occurrence reporting You already capture the data. Now use it to make real improvements in your patient care. This new resource by performance improvement expert Kenneth R. Rohde provides practical techniques to help you better analyze your occurrence reporting process, use your data to gain superior insight into why errors occur at your organization, and make improvements that decrease adverse events and enhance patient care. Benefits:Refine and improve your existing occurrence reporting system using a proven six-step approachArm yourself with the right data to become an effective change agent in your organizationDevelop an occurrence reporting process that decreases adverse events and enhances patient careImprove your report screening processEasily identify trends through detailed, efficient analysis methodsOrganize and prioritize your reports through effective codingImplement successful corrective actions through ongoing tracking and evaluationTable of Contents: Chapter 1: Rethinking the Occurrence Reporting Process Where Does Healthcare Go Wrong? Healthcare Is Not the Only Industry That Does Problem Identification and Resolution (PIR) Recommendations for an Ideal Process Chapter 2: The PIR Process Introducing the PIR Process Six Steps in the PIR Process Chapter 3: Reporting Importance of Managing Reporting Volume and Severity Must Dance Together Reporting Thresholds Tips for Normalization Internal vs. External Identification of Issues Two Simple Goals for Reporting Volume Tips for Improving Your Reporting Chapter 4: Screening Screening Is Really Just Prioritization Establishing Screening Criteria Reporting Severity Screening Quality Control Tips for Improving Your Screening Chapter 5: Analysis A Graded Approach to Problem Analysis Individual Analysis for High-Impact Problems and Moderate-Impact Problems Aggregated Analysis for Watch/Trend Problems Aggregated Analysis of Causes: The Big Payoff Five Simple Data Questions Trending and Aggregation Methods A Typical Analysis Session What Do Your Department Managers Really Want to Know? Chapter 6: Coding The Vital Process of Coding Code Based on Data Utilization A Practical Coding Structure Coding the Event vs. Coding the Causes Initial Event Codes Code Cleanup Troubleshooting Tips to Improve Coding Chapter 7: Causing Change: Implementing Corrective Actions Designing the Right Change Getting Stuff Done Dealing With External Commitments Tips to Improve Implementation Chapter 8: Tracking and Evaluation Tracking Actions Evaluation of Actions Evaluating the Effectiveness of the PIR Process Chapter 9: Taking Your PIR Process to the Next Level Looking Toward the Future Look at the 90 occurrence reporting tools included!Aviation Safety Reporting System incident report excerptNational Transportation Safety Board incident report excerptFDA adverse event report sampleIAEA initiation report sampleCPSC incident reportQuick guide to avoiding weaknesses: Build strengths in your PIR processSix steps of the PIR processSelf-assessment questions to evaluate reporting, screening, analysis, coding, implementation, and tracking and evaluationReporting stabilitySelf-reportingReporting by departmentCombine volume and severity to get the best pictureExample: Calculating relative a

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This volume discusses the current state of the nation's blood supply—including studies of blood availability, ways of enhancing blood collection and distribution, frozen red cell technology, logistical concerns in prepositioning frozen blood, extended liquid storage of red cells, and blood substitutes.