Physical oceanographer Brian Arbic of the University of Texas, Austin, says the paper is important because it takes the first "quantitative look at a large potential source of error" in the database of ocean currents.
To our knowledge, this is the first attempt that has been made to make use of well-established qualitative methods to assess the burden of harm posed by orthopaedic patient safety incidents reported to a database of errors.
5 Databases of error reports now exist in many parts of the world, including the UK and the USA.
Data quality for paper-based clinical trials is traditionally assessed through audits that compare database listings against data recorded on paper case report forms (CRFs), thereby providing an estimate of the database error rate [13], [14].
Providing a more accurate estimate of the database error rate, an ongoing validation process, will lead to a more accurate database because curators will, of course, correct any errors that are identified.
Then, a consistency check was performed to verify for possible broken links across objects within the database, formatting errors, and validity of citations.
Random errors (37.1% of total variance) stemming from selection process (Operator) because of the enormity of food items listed in the database and system errors (59.5% of total variance) due to measurements (units, tools and procedures) variations.
Some of it arrived and was properly disposed of, The Times found — it simply was not entered into the database because of clerical errors or for other reasons.
One of the databases that we searched was not publically available, but our own local database of medication error studies.
Finally, SG hand-searched the reference lists of all included articles and searched our research team's local database of medication error studies in order to identify any further studies informing the development, reliability, or validity of the severity assessment tools identified.
