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Communication in special circumstances

21/03/2025 by Bob Dunn

Following a reorganisation of content a new page called Communication in special circumstances has been created.

Categories Updates Tags Clinical skills
Medical error
Written communication

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Contributors
Associate Professor Robert Dunn

Previous contributors
Associate Professor Meredith Borland
Dr Deborah O'Brien
Dr Stuart Dilley
Dr Jennifer Brookes
Associate Professor Deborah Leach

Formula of the day

Emergency umbilical catheter insertion length in a term newborn - 5cm + stump length

Medical wisdom

Organizations are ambiguous, often intentionally, about the relationship between production targets, efficient use of resources, economy and costs of operations, and acceptable risks of low and high consequence accidents. This ambiguity has to be resolved by the actions of practitioners at the sharp end of the system.

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