Summarizes the results of a survey of a 50-state survey of systems for reporting adverse medical events that took place in 2004. The report documents the consistency of information that states collect, identifies issues relating to establishing a national patient safety repository, and presents a plan for implementing a standardized national system.

A Review of Current State-Level Adverse Medical Event Reporting Practices: Toward National Standards (Technical Report)

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Marken, Richard S.

Galegher, Jolene

Beckett, Megan K.

Fossum, Donna

Moreno, Connie S.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

RAND Corporation

<p>The core of the book are six papers by Dr. Richard S. Marken which have been published in peer reviewed journals over the past decade explaining why Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) offers the most promising approach to understanding behavior to date, and lays the foundation for a true science of psychology. A friend and advocate of the late William T. Powers, originator of PCT, Marken's assessment of where this new science will take us in the next fifty years is compelling as it is exciting.</p>

Doing Research on Purpose: A Control Theory Approach to Experimental Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

New View Publications

A collection of papers and essays describing scientific tests of the Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) model of purposeful behavior.

Newview Publications

<p>This book is a guide to doing a new kind of psychological research that focuses on the purposes rather than the causes of behavior. The research methods described here are based on a theory of behaviour called Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) that views organisms as purposeful rather than mechanical systems. According to PCT, purposeful behaviour involves acting to control perceptual input variables. Thus, understanding the purposeful behaviour of living organisms is a matter of determining the perceptual variables they are controlling when they are carrying out various behaviors. This book outlines research methods that determine what perceptual variables an organism is controlling, how it controls those variables, and why. It also describes methods for studying how an organism develops the ability to control different perceptions and how consciousness might be involved in this process.</p>

The Study of Living Control Systems: A Guide to Doing Research on Purpose

Cambridge University Press

The Study of Living Control Systems

“We need to strive for a world where people control what is important to themselves while minimizing the controlling of others.”We are all controlling people. In fact our feelings of wellbeing depend on staying in control. Just as when we drive a car, we must stay in control in everyday life in order to keep the things we care about going in the right direction. Yet this natural controlling behavior is sometimes the very reason we end up losing control. This happens when we try to control other people as well as when we try to control ourselves. So how do we do better? Based on Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), this entertaining and enlightening book by psychologists Richard S. Marken and Timothy A. Carey explores the paradox of why we often lose control by trying to be in control and why our controlling nature makes it difficult to stop this self-defeating behavior. They show that understanding PCT opens the window to understanding and learning about ourselves as controlling people and equips us to lead more effective and satisfying lives.

Controlling People: The Paradoxical Nature of Being Human

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Australian Academic Press

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