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Intelligence is the process through which a particular type of information is taken from collection, evaluation, analysis, integration, interpretation and finally dissemination. The information collection process is a critical national security activity that every country needs to protect from foreign and terrorist invasions. Information gathering process entails a variety of activities from the essential eavesdropping, spies, open sources such as radio and publications to technological sources that require a lot of expertise (Nimon, 2013). The introduction of information technology after the Cold War and the numerous developments in technology has made this collection process easier. The scope of intelligence ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Patient safety is one of the most important medical concerns in a surgical procedure. Surgical errors such as wrong side or site, wrong procedure, and/or wrong person, though occur rarely, are considered as highly devastating events. In the U.S., about 28% of procedure related adverse events were reported in three different hospitals in 2011. According to the National Patient Safety Agency, 129,419 cases of surgical errors occurred in England and Wales in 2007 (McDowell & McComb, 2014). Surgical errors resulted in different degrees of impairment or harm. Most frequently occurring problems associated with the surgical ...

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Research in Nursing Practice Abstract Patient safety is important not only for patient but also for medical community, and this safety includes the reduction of medical and surgical errors. In the last few years, researchers have started showing great interest in the use of checklists before performing a surgery to reduce surgical errors. Usually, those checklists include the time out process, i.e. a kind of break or pause, before starting any surgical procedure. Those checklists may also include the information of patient, information of site or side, and information of procedure. Before starting any operation, operating staff communicate with ...