>All the more reason to pencil the research methods Tufton on 28th
January into your diary now while I finalise the programme
I hadn't picked up on this- there is a meeting on 16th isn't there?
>So the swiss cheese is joined up. (Wanted new metaphor - preferably
alive) Is this new? I can't recall now whether I came to this
conclusion myself or whether I read it somewhere first, but it is
important and not widely enough stated.
I think quite a few folks are dropping the Swiss cheese model. A web
under tension (i.e. it transmits movement and vibration) is often used
in complex systems and I think something on those lines might be better
for this kind of model, but...
"All models are useful, but all models are wrong" Kurt Lewin Field
Theory in Social Science; Selected Theoretical Papers Greenwood Press
1975
>Are there medical incident databases that one can analyse?
Yes, the defence organisations have them. Soon there will be the NPSA
reporting database, that would be better (still highly selected cases
but less so than defence databases). They would probably like some
analysis to develop the model of what happens when harm occurs.
Tim
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