STRENGTHENING OPEN DISCLOSURE AFTER INCIDENTS IN MATERNITY CARE: A REALIST SYNTHESIS OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EVIDENCE

Strengthening open disclosure after incidents in maternity care: a realist synthesis of international research evidence

Abstract Background Open Disclosure (OD) is open and timely communication about harmful events arising from health care with those affected.It is an entitlement of service-users and an aspect of their recovery, as well as an important dimension of service safety improvement.Recently, OD in maternity care in the English National Health Service has b

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Purification and functional characterisation of rhiminopeptidase A, a novel aminopeptidase from the venom of Bitis gabonica rhinoceros.

Snake bite is a major neglected public health issue within poor communities living in the rural areas of several countries throughout the world.An estimated 2.5 million people are bitten by snakes each year and the cost and lack of efficacy of current anti-venom therapy, together with the lack of detailed knowledge about toxic components of venom a

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The flare likelihood and region eruption forecasting (FLARECAST) project: flare forecasting in the big data & machine learning era

The European Union funded the FLARECAST project, that ran from January 2015 until February 2018.FLARECAST had a research-to-operations (R2O) focus, and accordingly introduced several innovations into the discipline of solar flare forecasting.FLARECAST innovations were: first, the treatment of hundreds of physical properties viewed as promising flar

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