Interagency Partnering for Weed Prevention – Progress on Development of a National Early Detection and Rapid Response System for Invasive Plants in the United States

2011 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Randy G. Westbrooks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Invasive Plants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Rapid Response System ◽  
Response System

Detection and Eradication of Introduced Species

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Simberloff
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Introduced Species ◽  
Invasion Biology ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Nonnative Species ◽  
Rapid Response System ◽  
Response System ◽  
System P ◽  
Harmful Event

What is an early detection and rapid response system? Invasion biology shares a philosophy with medicine—it is far better to prevent a harmful event or disease than it is to rely on the hope that some prescribed cure will be successful. Still, nonnative species...

Introduction of a Rapid Response System at a United States Veterans Affairs Hospital Reduced Cardiac Arrests

2010 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey K. Lighthall ◽  
Layla M. Parast ◽  
Lisa Rapoport ◽  
Todd H. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Veterans Affairs ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Rapid Response System ◽  
Response System

Should Screening Programs Be Perfect?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-301
Author(s):  
PHILIP R. WYATT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
New England ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Neonatal Hypothyroidism ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Care System

To the Editor.— The report of the New England Regional Screening Program1 on neonatal hypothyroidism is a stunning illustration of the vulnerability of screening programs. It is unfortunate that this experience will probably be used as an argument to minimize the input of screening programs in the health care system in the United States. The report illustrates that, in addition to the 2% of the screened population that eluded the program, 14 infants with hypothyroidism escaped the full benefits of early detection and treatment.

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