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The emphasis is placed on fixing preventable problems, rather than preventing those problems in the first place.
The ability to give regular and rapid feedback to investigators and data collectors highlights preventable problems in the data collection process and prevents deterioration in data quality [ 1, 9].
Attempting to draw the line between truly preventable problems and those that are the result of prolonged therapy would seem to be a very slippery slope.
Among the preventable problems that Dr. Landrigan's team identified were severe bleeding during an operation, serious breathing trouble caused by a procedure that was performed incorrectly, a fall that dislocated a patient's hip and damaged a nerve, and vaginal cuts caused by a vacuum device used to help deliver a baby.
"If we ignore these problems, they will come back to us at much higher costs through emergency department visits, impaired children who are likely to need care for many years for preventable problems, and higher costs for jails and prisons that are the last resort for help for many," University of California at San Diego psychiatrist Marc Schuckit said in an editorial accompanying the study.
This kind of checklist will help you avoid embarrassing and preventable problems at work.
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"This is a 100percentt preventable problem," Dr. Abdullah Kannan, a gynecologist in Khartoum, said of fistula.
The misuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes in particular is a widespread yet preventable problem.
Injury is a pervasive, expensive and, to some extent, preventable problem.
If everyone became as heavy as the average American, according to one estimate, the world's human biomass would jump by 20%, the equivalent of adding about 1 billion normal-sized people.Fortunately obesity is that rare thing, an entirely preventable problem.
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