With the regular publications via the Swedish Strategic Programme Against Antibiotic Resistance (Strama) in Region Västra Götaland, awareness of this error has increased among prescribers during the period studied, and thus the decrease in prescription rates at a few individual PCCs could be partly caused by a more correct use of the workplace code.
These pressures have been accompanied by a growing awareness of the problem of error in health care and an exponential increase in litigation.
However, we expect that the awareness of errors of the ICU personnel has already improved, forming the first step to increased patient safety.
The awareness of the causes of errors in manual annotation is important for database curators to identify issues that deserve particular attention in the examination of the original sources of information.
This book has received much press coverage and may have enhanced consumer awareness of the prevalence of errors and, therefore, the need for computer systems that help physicians make complex medical decisions.
Then, almost a day later and apparently with the dawning awareness of the nastiness of the error, the Beast "retracted" the column, with the note: "The Daily Beast sincerely regrets Kurtz's error – and any implication that Collins attempted to hide or obscure the engagement".
Awareness of the implications of genotyping error has increased greatly in recent years, and there is an emerging consensus that error rates should be estimated and reported, particularly when performing error-sensitive analyses such as parentage analysis or individual identification (Bonin et al. 2004; Hoffman and Amos, 2005; Pompanon et al. 2005; DeWoody et al. 2006).
These factors, as well as the increasing awareness of the risks of medical error, have highlighted the potential benefits of information technology to clinical care.
Raising nurses' awareness of the high intravenous administration error rate is also likely to be helpful in reinforcing compliance with correct procedures.
Lack of awareness of the students towards refractive error in addition to the painless and progressive nature of this disease is believed to be among the causes which let the problem remain undetected or uncorrected.
