Lyerly and colleagues suggest that "It is the physician's obligation not to eliminate risk, but to help patients weigh risk, benefit, and potential harm, informed by best scientific evidence and guided by a patient-centred ethic" [ 49] (p. 982).
These bright and brassy young women found themselves in a world where, as they recalled in Oslo, you had to "work 16 hours a day and wash once a week" under the hostile glare of guards who tried to humiliate prisoners by forcing them to harm or inform on one another.
Incident type, contributory factors, type, and level of harm were described, informing recommendations for future practice.
With regard to Temple Street Hospital, letters were sent to all parents/carers of young people who had attended the Accident & Emergency department over a four year period (2004 2007) with self harm or suicidal behaviour informing them about the programme and inviting them to attend.
Effective education may also help to mitigate psychosocial harms; for instance, by informing parents, before testing, that an initial positive result is a possibility and does not represent a confirmatory diagnosis, it may be possible to reduce the risk of psychosocial harm associated with receiving a false-positive NBS result.
Computer simulations provide a useful tool for bringing together diverse sources of information in order to increase understanding of the complex aetiology of drug use and related harm, and to inform the development of effective policies.
As problem gambling is associated with poor psychosocial health, understanding risk factors is important to inform harm minimization policies.
We measured trends and correlates of high risk medication prescribing in a subset of the older UK population (community/institutionalized) to inform harm minimization efforts.
The review has the objective of using the risks or harm identified to inform emergency medical responders of likely sources of threat and allow them to mitigate risks to safety at future terrorist incidents.
The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) maintains a list of "chemicals known to the state to cause cancer" under Proposition 65 (Cal/EPA 2004), a 1986 ballot initiative enacted to protect citizens from chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm and to inform citizens about exposures to such chemicals.
