books: error control     books:     Error control      History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. ... Anatoly Fomenko Delamere Resources, 2007 Pants on fire? Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely ...             The Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Simplified Approach to Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Workplace ... Max Ammerman Productivity Press, 1998 Unique approach to a traditionally reactive technique My background is information systems service delivery. I stumbled across this gem when I was searching for resources on how to structure outage investigations for applications that did not meet service level objectives. Prior to reading this book I viewed root cause ...             Quantization Noise: Roundoff Error in Digital Computation, Signal Processing, Control, and Communications Bernard Widrow, István Kollár Cambridge University Press, 2008 If you are working in digital signal processing, control or numerical analysis, you will find this authoritative analysis of quantization noise (roundoff error) invaluable. Do you know where the theory of quantization noise comes from, and under what circumstances it is true? Get answers to these and other important practical questions from ...             To Do No Harm: Ensuring Patient Safety in Health Care Organizations (J-B AHA Press) Julianne M., RN, MS Morath, Joanne E., PHD Turnbull Jossey-Bass, 2004 With this important resource, health care leaders from the board room to the point-of-care can learn how to apply the science of safe and best practices from industry to healthcare by changing leadership practices, models of service delivery, and methods of communication.             10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How To Avoid Them: Simple and Sure Techniques for Gaining Greater ... Arthur Freeman Harper Paperbacks, 1993 Will greatly improve your life This is one of the most helpful books I have ever read. It lets you recognise patterns of thinking that leads to unhappiness and lost potential. It then gives simple and practical techniques to alternative ways of thinking that will greatly improve the quality of ...             Error Control Coding (2nd Edition) Shu Lin, Daniel J. Costello Prentice Hall, 2004 Foremost book in the field I had the previous version of this book as my text at USC. This version is a huge improvement over the last one. This one covers all the new advances and adds emphasis on the use of coding to communications channels. A complaint I had of the last version was that it ...             Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans Rosemary Gibson, Janardan Prasad Singh LifeLine Press, 2003 A call to arms for families who have had loved ones disabled or dying in the pursuit of medical treatment...Well written and researched ...highlights this timely topic in a unique way that will evoke the reader's own experience. --Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter             The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations Sidney Dekker Ashgate Publishing, 2002 Never look at human error the same way again! Over the past several years I have been going through a revolution in thought on incidents, accidents, and human error, thanks to Nancy Leveson of MIT, David Woods of Ohio State, and Sidney Dekker of Lund University in Sweden and others. Sidney Dekker's book, "The ...             Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition Charles L. Bosk University Of Chicago Press, 2003 It Reminds Physicians of our Responsibilities As a medical student at the University of Chicago, Forgive and Remember helped shape my view of what good, caring physicians need to do when policing their own. I am currently on the quality assurance committees at three hospitals where I practice. I am buying several ...             The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods Naida Grunden Productivity Press, 2007 PRHI in the News Great book. I especially enjoyed the chapter on myths about electronic health records, which makes the best case to date for doctors about "What's in it for me?" Other sections, such as making handoffs safer and reducing medication errors are full of practical ...             The Art of Error Correcting Coding Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza Wiley, 2006 A must have This book is a great introduction to the topic of error correcting codes. It gives very simple examples to demonstrate the main concepts of coding and decoding for error correction. The part on iterative decoding needs more work. However, the exposition of Reed Solomon ...             Applied Phlebotomy Dennis J Ernst Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 Excellent resource!! This is a great text to have in the laboratory. It not only can serve as a reference but also as a training tool. The review questions at the end of each chapter help serve as a competency check in our lab. I highly recommend this book!             Avoiding Common Surgical Errors Lisa Marcucci, Michael J Moritz, ... Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 This pocket book lists 186 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants when working with surgical patients on the ward or in the operating room, emergency room, or intensive care unit. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference on ...             Surgery Clerkship: 150 Biggest Mistakes And How To Avoid Them (Clerkship Mistake) Samir P. Desai, Neal Barshes, ... Md2b, 2005 Surgery Clerkship: 150 Biggest Mistakes And How To Avoid Them (Clerkship Mistake) This writer/Dr. knows what he is talking about. I recommend this book to all medical students that are taking their surgical clerkship. I suggest reading it the weekend before the rotation. I took me only 4 hours to read it (this time included numerous ...             Human Error: Causes and Control George A. Peters, Barbara J. Peters CRC, 2006 Practical Means to Mitigate Human Error Human Error Causes and Control Folks, I just read a wonderful book titled Human Error Causes and Control. I highly recommend it for the chapter as it discusses and provides mitigating techniques for the primary cause of all accidents, the human. 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