{"title":"Communication breakdowns and diagnostic errors: a radiology perspective.","authors":"Daniel R Murphy, Hardeep Singh, Leonard Berlin","doi":"10.1515/dx-2014-0035","DOIUrl":"10.1515/dx-2014-0035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Timely and accurate communication is essential to safe and effective health care. Despite increased awareness over the past decade of the frequency of medical errors and greater efforts directed towards improving patient safety, patient harm due to communication breakdowns remains a significant problem. Communication problems related to diagnostic testing may account for nearly half of all errors made by typical primary care physicians in their medical practices. This article provides an overview of communication breakdowns in the context of radiology related diagnostic errors. In radiology, communication breakdowns between radiologists, referring clinicians, and patients can lead to failure of critical information to be relayed, resulting in delayed or missed diagnosis. New technologies, such electronic health records (EHRs), contribute to the increasing complexity of communication in health care, but if used correctly, they can provide several benefits to safe and effective communication. To address the complexity of communication breakdowns, a multifaceted sociotechnical approach is needed to address both technical and non-technical aspects of health care delivery. The article also provides some future directions in reducing communication breakdowns related to diagnostic testing, including proactive risk assessment of communication practices using recently released SAFER self-assessment guides.</p>","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"253-261"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799783/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89640969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Instance of the Rape of German Women in Civil War Missouri","authors":"R. Frizzell","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18755","url":null,"abstract":"Historians continue to debate the character o f the American Civil War nearly a century and a half after its end. Mark Neely, in a Harvard University Press monograph entitled The Civil War and the Limits o f Destruction, has challenged James McPherson’s characterization o f the war between North and South as a “total war.” Neely contends the Civil War was “remarkable for its traditional restraint.” In reviewing Neely’s book, McPherson said in his own defense that while the war may not have been the “total war” that he called it a few decades ago, it was certainly a “hard war,” filled with property destruction and civilian death.' Both McPherson and Neely use events in Missouri as a central pillar to support their contrasting positions. O f Missouri, McPherson says. That state had a civil war within the Civil War, a war o f neighbor against neighbor and sometimes literally brother against brother, an armed conflict along the Kansas border, which went back to 1854 and never really stopped, o f ugly, vicious, no-holds-barred bushwhacking that came close to total war.” ̂ Neely, in writing o f Price’s 1864 raid into Missouri, says “Neither side fought without restraint. Neither unleashed the full fury o f unbridled wrath. Events remained under control.”^ This paper is not going to resolve the dispute between two o f Americas most respected Civil War historians, but it does assert that the guerrilla warfare in western Missouri in 1864 was, in one respect, worse than historians have known up to now. Specifically, there are good reasons to believe that “Bloody Bill” Anderson’s men gang-raped a significant number o f German immigrant women along the Lafayette County border on October 10, 1864.","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theses and Dissertations in German-American Studies 2000-2013","authors":"YGAS Editors","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keeping it in the Family: The Schoellkopfs and Serial Entrepreneurship across Generations","authors":"B. Schwantes","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18758","url":null,"abstract":"Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf immigrated to the United States in 1842 and through a combination of thoughtful, strategic decision-making and a fair dose of luck, built a family empire in and around Buffalo, New York, that he passed down to his son and grandsons. Trained in Wurttemberg as a tanner, he took major risks in the U.S. by venturing into commercial sectors in which he had no knowledge or experience. Yet, by working closely with native-born Americans who were experts in these fields and by sending his children back to Germany for further education, he found himself on the cut ting edge of a number of fields including hydroelectric power generation and aniline dye production. His life offers an instructive case study in serial en trepreneurship and illustrates the transatlantic flows of financial and human capital that contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States during the late nineteenth century.'","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"German-American Banking Firms and American Development, 1860-1945: An Overview","authors":"Atiba Pertilla","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18759","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a synthesis of research on the history ofGerman-American banking firms, and particularly firms run by German-Jewish immigrants and their descendants, and their role in the financing of American investment from the Civil War through World War II. The history of American development in this period is in large part a history of the increasing importance of New York City’s financial community—Wall Street— in the process by which governments, transportation companies, and entrepreneurs obtained the high amounts of capital they needed for large-scale projects ranging from the funds to fight the Civil War to the money to build the transcontinental railroads to the financing needs of mass retailers and heavy industry. A handful of small banking firms headquartered in the Wall Street neighborhood, employing no more than a few dozen to two hundred workers, yet helping to facilitate the investment of tens of millions of dollars, were central to this history. This overview focuses on four of these firms: J. & W. Seligman & Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Lehman Brothers; and Goldman Sachs.","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomas Jefferson and Germany: His Travel Experience, Scientific and Phibsophical Influences","authors":"Sandra Rebok","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Max Mohr (1891-1937), an Almost Forgotten Dramatist and Novelist of the 1920s, in Exile in Shanghai 1934-37","authors":"Hans-Peter Baum","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18756","url":null,"abstract":"Max Mohr, the subject o f this essay,' was one of the rising stars o f the German theater in the 1920s, but was almost completely forgotten soon after he went into exile and in the post-war years, as well. Only recently have there been signs o f a renewed interest in him and his literary works. This essay will emphasize three aspects: first o f all, with the help o f some short biographical notes, it wants to make Max Mohr better known to students o f German literature in America where only little, if any, notice has been taken o f him. Secondly, it presents a short review of Mohrs literary oeuvre and his place in the German literature o f the 1920s and early 1930s. Lastly, it is intended to throw some light on Shanghai as an important, but less well-known place o f exile for German and Austrian Jews during the years o f National Socialist rule in Central Europe. The extent to which Max Mohr was forgotten can be seen from a short perusal o f biographical handbooks as well as histories and encyclopedias o f German literature. Vol. 17 o f the Neue Deutsche Biographie (containing the letter M) which appeared in 1994 does not mention him at all;^ neither does the authoritative Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, 2nd edition, o f 1987.^ The same is true o f two shorter encyclopedias o f literature popular with students, i.e.. Kroner’s Deutsche Schrifisteller der Gegenwart and Rowohlt’s Autorenlexikon deutschsprachiger Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts.^ The widely used Metzler Lexikon Autoren does not contain his name in its 4th edition of 2010.^ This may be seen as atypical considering the very recent publication date o f this reference work and the renewed interest in Mohr mentioned above. The Deutsche Literatur-Lexikon, 3rd edition, o f 1986 has","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Bernese Tdufen A^ects of Local Origins, Familial Growth, Migrations, and General Attitude as Reflected in Pre-1750 Archival Sources","authors":"Paul Hostettler, L. Schelbert","doi":"10.17161/ygas.v48i.18760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v48i.18760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83559,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of German-American studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67528484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}