A retrospective study in two US hospitals found a significant correlation between inadequate or suboptimal documentation and failure to justify transfusion, with 73% of inadequately documented transfusions not meeting hospital guidelines.
"The lack of documentation and failure to apply a formal procedure does not, of itself, evidence discrimination..
These concrete indicators enable measurement of incremental progress and are specific enough to enable tracking of success and clear documentation of failure.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of documents and documentation in communication failure among healthcare professionals across the perioperative pathway.
The method, which is based on the observation and documentation of a failure mode referred to here as "spalling" in deep tunnels or caverns, is put forward and presented to estimate the macro-scale rock stress.
Samples were designated as positive if the LSI was greater than or equal to 5. Assays were considered invalid if there was documentation of technical failure due to lack of tritium incorporation, high background cpm, not enough cells to complete the assay or lack of response to the mitogens.
Further, as noted above, there was no documentation of prior failure to respond to conventional therapies.
We relied on physician diagnoses or documentation of heart failure, comorbidities, and risk factors, and we do not have independent confirmation of diagnoses or data on left ventricular ejection fraction.
The documentation of establishment failures also is a priority so that comparisons of failures can be made with species or locations that successfully established.
In their hearings, which are expected to last through the summer, Congressional leaders said they would press for a full documentation of intelligence failures and for finding out who was responsible for those failures.
