Tim
>Not sure if you asked me because of my interest in safety, or
>because you thought I'd come up with something clever, or both (my
>over inflated opinion of myself says the latter!).
Whatever
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>snip
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>I confess that personally I now nothing about power law scaling.
All the more reason to pencil the research methods Tufton on 28th January into your diary now while I finalise the programme
>However, systems are not separated.
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.
Are there medical incident databases that one can analyse?
>Knaus et al "An evaluation of outcome from intensive care in major
>medical centres". Annals of Internal Medicine 1986: 104; 410-418
>After analysing every variable they could, the conclusion was that
>the variation in mortality rate was related to the quality of the
>interaction between staff.
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To which one can only say (with bottle of mineral water in hand) "Cool"
>More thoughts please...
thinking....
Chris
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