6 Citations
Gesundheit nach Fukushima
- Political Science, Medicine
- Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
- 2011
ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Kurzbeitrag thematisiert die gegenwärtige Lage in der Krisenregion Fukushima und die möglichen Gesundheitsfolgen nach dem Reaktorunfall. Wir diskutieren aktuelle… Expand
Evaluation of the SCHER opinion on DU in 2010
- 2011
Risk is the quantitative relationship between exposure and health consequence. By its nature this would depend upon assumptions about specific scenarios of exposure, not all of which could be… Expand
"Nuclear" medicine physicians as communicators: their point of view on the aftermath of "nuclear" disaster
- Medicine
- Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift
- 2012
This review intends to discuss emerging problems and enlighten a way to communicate in such events, tell people how to react in such scenarios and prevent panic by providing rational information. Expand
Learning from practice variation to improve the quality of care.
- Medicine
- Clinical medicine
- 2013
This paper describes some of the quality improvement techniques used in medicine, which include selecting the 'package' of clinical actions to implement, identifying subsidiary actions to achieve the improvement aim, designing the implementation strategy and ways to incentivise QI. Expand
Comparison of a Trigger Tool and Voluntary Reporting to Identify Adverse Events in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Medicine
- Anaesthesia and intensive care
- 2014
Whereas the Trigger Tool is a simple, efficient and robust method, voluntary reporting is inadequate and captures very few adverse events in the intensive care unit environment. Expand
Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial
- Medicine
- Implementation Science
- 2014
Some aspects of stroke care improved during the quality improvement collaboratives, but the effects of the BTS QIC were modest and further improvement is needed. Expand
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Chernobyl and public health
- Medicine
- BMJ
- 1998
Today there is little dispute that a real increase in thyroid cancer occurred among young people in Belarus, and similar debates are now obscuring the ability to learn longer term lessons from Chernobyl and provide further help to its victims. Expand
A 25 year retrospective review of the psychological consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
- Medicine
- Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
- 2011
An updated review of research on the psychological impact of the Chernobyl accident during the 25 year period since the catastrophe began suggests first responders and clean-up workers had the greatest exposure to radiation. Expand
Nanotechnology: A little knowledge...
- Business, Medicine
- Nature
- 2003
Nanotechnology is set to be the next campaign focus for environmental groups. Can scientists avoid the mistakes made over genetically modified food, and secure public trust for their research? Geoff… Expand
Early estimates of UK radiation doses from the Chernobyl reactor
- Environmental Science
- Nature
- 1986
The plume of radioactive material from the Chernobyl reactor accident passed over the United Kingdom and will increase the radiation dose to the population in the coming year. The increase above the… Expand
Emergency reference levels for reactor accidents: a re-examination of the Windscale reactor accident.
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Health physics
- 1976
AbstractApplication of the data in the Medical Research Council (I975) report on “Criteria for Controlling Radiation Doses to the Public after Accidental Release of Radioactive Material” to the… Expand
Special Report: Counting the dead
- Medicine, History
- Nature
- 2006
This week's cover shows a helicopter crew monitoring radioactivity above the damaged reactor 4 later that summer, and in a series of pieces in this issue the authors chart the costs of Chernobyl, the world's worst peacetime nuclear accident, in terms of human lives and ecological damage. Expand