The report showed that public information campaigns before the hurricane failed to properly prepare Puerto Ricans for Hurricane Maria and that flaws in communication between agencies and communities limited the amount of public health and safety information that reached residents in the aftermath of the storm.
As the board prepares its final report about what led to the breakup of the shuttle over Texas on Feb. 1, people deeply involved in the investigation say board members have become more concerned about NASA's flaws in communication and in its evaluating and tracking of problems before the Columbia's launching and during its flight.
In addition, as the dialogues can contain intimate content, for example when discussing an incident or flaws in communication between staff, a GP as trainer may be easier to confide in and can also display more understanding of the situation.
In "Mind the Gap: Scholarly Cyberinfrastructure is the Third Rail of Funders, Institutions, and Researchers: Why Do we Keep/ Getting it Wrong and What Can We Do about it?" CrossRef's Geoff Bilder offered energetic provocations on the flaws in scholarly communication cyberinfrastructures ("Why are we so crap at infrastructure?").
Instead of focusing on any flaws in the communication, we can look for the kernels of truth in what our partner says to us.
Thus, our new measure and the corresponding results may be a warning against premature conclusions: the physician, when realizing the internal feeling "oh no, not him again!", should critically focus on his relationship to the patient or on flaws in their communication behaviour than on certain diagnoses or demands.
And the electronic record systems are themselves increasingly attracting concerns that computer errors, design flaws and breakdowns in communication sometimes endanger patients.
The Defense Department's failure to acknowledge the threat of violent Islamist extremism within its ranks, coupled with organizational and communication flaws in the FBI's counterterrorism operations, contributed to the tragedy.
It is clear that flaws in processes such as communication and coordination [ 6], as well as gaps in medical knowledge, are obstructing the path to personalised medicine, in which the right treatment is delivered to the right patient at the right time.
Other examples of flaws, he said, are a breakdown in communication among departments, a fear among subordinates to question higher-ups and a failure to incorporate crosschecks — the way airline workers do for safety reasons — or checklists.
Parents describe their experience in communication with nurses and doctors most by positive terms, but at the same time they noted many flaws in specific aspects of communication, as revealed by their comments in the survey.
