Conciliation Processes Research Articles

Conciliación de la medicación en el paciente hematológico ingresado

ObjectiveThe main objective was to analyze unjustified discrepancies during the medication reconciliation process in patients admitted to the Hematology Service of our hospital and the pharmaceutical interventions. As a secondary objective, to detect possible points of the procedure to be perfected with a view to protocolizing the medication reconciliation process in hematological patients that adapts to the conditions of our center. MethodsCross-sectional observational pilot study carried out in a reference hospital in hematology for a population of 800,000 inhabitants. Adult inpatients admitted to the Hematology Service between August and October 2022 whose medication had been reconciled were included. The main variables were: number and type of unjustified discrepancy, proposed pharmaceutical intervention, and acceptance rate. Results36 conciliation processes were analyzed, 34 admissions and 2 intrahospital transfer. 58.3% of the patients presented at least one unjustified discrepancy. 38 unjustified discrepancies were detected, with an acceptance of pharmaceutical interventions of 97.4%. The most common types of discrepancy were medication omission (56.8%) and drug interaction (24.3%). The most frequent pharmaceutical interventions were reintroducing medication (48.6%) and treatment discontinuation (16.2%). Polypharmacy and chemotherapy multiplied by 4 the probability of presenting drug interactions. ConclusionsThe most common unjustified discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process in hospitalized hematology patients are: Medication omission and drug interactions. The reintroduction of medication and suspension of the prescription are the most frequent accepted pharmaceutical interventions. Polypharmacy is related to an increase in unjustified discrepancies. The factors that promote the appearance of interactions are admissions to receive chemotherapy treatment and polypharmacy. The main point of improvement detected is the need to create a circuit that allows conciliation to be carried out on discharge. Medication reconciliation contribute to improving patient safety by reducing medication errors.

Mediators’ professional competence and personal qualities in conducting conciliation processes with varying degrees of success

Orientation: Mediation is becoming an increasingly popular conciliatory procedure, which makes it possible to increase the psychological protection of parties in disputes in educational, social environment and legal practice.Research purpose: To develop and empirically confirm the model of mediators’ professional competencies to determine the features of mediators’ professional competencies and personal characteristics in the conciliation procedure with varying degrees of success.Motivation for the study: Today, the profession of mediator is becoming increasingly popular; however, there is not enough information in scientific literature about the issues of specialists’ professional suitability to training and experience, desirable personality traits and competencies.Research approach/ design and method: A total of 103 mediators from the Russian Arkhangelsk region took part in the study. Research methods include psychological testing using Bardin and Presnov’s ‘11 personality factors’, Costa and McCray’s Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire adapted by Bodunov and Biryukov and questioning (the author’s self-assessment questionnaire of mediators’ professional competencies). Statistical processing was carried out using descriptive statistics, correlation (Pearson’s χ2), multivariate variance and stepwise multiple regression analysis using the SPSS 23 software package.Main findings: The mediators’ professional competence model includes communication, conflict management, problem analysis, planning and self-control. A self-assessment questionnaire for mediators’ professional competencies, which can be used by the 360-degree method, has been developed and tested. A conclusion was made that the success of a conciliation procedure is influenced by such personal qualities as self-control, communication, curiosity and morality. From the list of mediators’ professional qualities, compiled by the authors, the following ones directly influence the success of mediation: activity, specificity, openness, poise, organisation, responsibility and communication skills.Practical/managerial implications: It is necessary to provide additional support for novice mediators, because this will facilitate more active involvement in activities, conduct more conciliation process and subsequently lead to increased success.Contribution/value-add: The developed questionnaire for assessing professional competencies will help in the training and selection of mediators. It will allow us to highlight what key and specific competencies of the mediator hinder the achievement of a successful result in the rehabilitation procedure and require development.

La conciliación virtual extrajudicial en Derecho; reflexiones frente a la éticaa


 La conciliación es una figura socio-jurídica a la vanguardia, en muchos escenarios de la actualidad se escucha hablar de ello. Objetivo. Hacer una reflexión del componente ético en la conciliación extrajudicial virtual reconociéndolo como un mecanismo gratuito, rápido, eficaz para la solución de conflictos jurídicos. Materiales y métodos. La investigación aplicó el método deductivo-analítico, se investigó acerca de la aplicación de la figura de la conciliación virtual en los centros de conciliación y arbitraje tomando como muestra la ciudad de Medellín. Resultados. Los resultados parciales que se han encontrado en la investigación se centran en la adaptación de la virtualidad en las audiencias de conciliación. Conclusiones. La ética en la conciliación virtual es un resultado de los avances sociales, que permite el uso de las tecnologías como medio para llegar a más personas, hacer más efectivos y económicos los procesos conciliatorios, que tiene como fin ético solucionar conflictos por medio de la cultura del diálogo. 
 

Finding fairness in a high volume statutory ADR environment: observations from an Australian workcover conciliation service

Pre-hearing compulsory Appropriate Dispute Resolution processes (ADR) is increasingly popular in the Australian judicial system, with expectations of achieving fair, quick and efficient resolution of disputes and a reduction in the number of lengthy expensive court based proceedings. While new jurisdictions are enthusiastically incorporating compulsory pre-hearing ADR there is little research on longstanding institutions. The private nature of these court annexed ADR processes can be an inherent weakness; allowing less rigorous use of ADR processes to go unchecked and potentially lessening achievement of substantive justice for individual appellants. In Victoria the Accident Compensation Conciliation Service (ACCS) conciliates all disputes between WorkCover insurers and workers as a compulsory step before proceedings can be taken in court. This paper seeks indicators of how well the ACCS is currently achieving the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (the Act)’s Objectives compared to historical outcomes by examining trends in new applications and resolution rates, and levels of human resources. These statistical trends are derived from 10 consecutive Annual Reports. Key areas explored include power imbalances, work intensification, fairness and selection of assessment criteria. This analysis found resolution rates are slowly declining and workloads are intensifying. Questions remain about how these trends will impact on public confidence in these justice processes and what is meant by ‘reasonable efforts to bring the parties to agreement’. Developing assessment criteria for conciliation processes is identified as a future industry wide project essential for the credibility of mandatory statutory ADR.

La vulnerabilidad de la mujer en la guerra y su papel en el posconflicto

Abordar la violencia contra la mujer en el marco del conflicto armado colombiano, y su papel en el postconflicto implicar hacer énfasis en los efectos de la violencia en las mujeres, la instrumentalización de su cuerpo, las secuelas psicológicas que el desplazamiento forzado genera, y su papel de restitución social. El papel femenino en el postconflicto es innegable y necesario para construir paz y paces, en este sentido experiencias de mediación muestran que cuando la mujer es parte de las negociaciones, los procesos de conciliación son más viables y efectivos.

Hipóteses abdutivas antefactuais e modelação proativa de metas

Fundamentado na Teoria da Relevância de Sperber e Wilson (1995), apresenta-se neste artigo um primeiro esboço de uma arquitetura descritiva e explanatória para a formulação e a avaliação de hipóteses abdutivas em contextos proativos, a ser denominada de Teoria de Conciliação de Metas. A partir de um exemplo no qual um indivíduo pretende abrir uma porta chaveada, expõe-se o modelo conceitual em quatro estágios – projeção de meta e formulação, execução e checagem de hipótese antefactual – e avaliam-se processos de conciliação conforme contextos formados por cinco categorias de hipóteses abdutivas antefactuais: categóricas, bicondicionais, condicionais, habilitadoras e tautológicas.

Alternate Dispute Resolution and the Common Man

Alternate Dispute Resolution popularly called by its generic acronym ADR, is an idea that engulfs the concepts of arbitration, mediation, conciliation and various other processes which fall outside the judicial preview. Alternate Dispute Resolution directs towards a swifter and less expensive route to justice, thereby also reducing the backlog of astronomical number of cases in the court. This process has emerged as an essential component of conflict management and judicial reform. A ray of hope and betterment binds, the process of Alternate Dispute Resolution to the common man, as people will not have to exhaust their resources for attainment of Justice.

The Settlement Privilege: A General Principle of International ADR Law

IT HAS been said that the settlement of a dispute dirough agreement of the parties ‘is of the essence of the spirit of arbitration’.1 Sometimes, however, these settlement talks, conducted prior to or during the arbitration with or without the assistance of a third neutral, fail for whatever reasons and the arbitration commences or continues. In such a scenario, a party may feel inclined to introduce into the subsequent arbitration procedure views, admissions, proposals, suggestions, indications of readiness to accept a certain proposal for settlement, made in writing or orally by the other side during the settlement negotiations. That side will object to such an undertaking. It will argue that its statements made during settlement negotiations or ADR proceedings to bring about a settlement agreement between the parties to the dispute should not be admitted as evidence in the subsequent arbitration because they are privileged. The party’s position that the tribunal must reject the motion to produce such evidence will be based on article 9(2)(b) of the IBA Rules2 which provides that the tribunal shall exclude evidence if it is privileged ‘under the legal or ethical rules determined by the Arbitral Tribunal to be applicable’. While in many cases, the law applicable to such a privilege objection must be determined by classical conflict of laws analysis,3 the situation is different with respect to the settlement privilege. Here, a transnational privilege exists which protects settlement negotiations both with and without the presence of a third neutral. ### (a) The Transnational Rule There is a unanimous view today in international ADR and arbitration practice that a general mediation privilege exists which renders all evidence, whether written or oral, stemming from mediation, conciliation and similar ADR processes between the parties inadmissible as evidence in subsequent arbitration proceedings.4 The privilege follows from the notion of …

Conciliation through Iterated Belief Merging

Two families of conciliation processes for intelligent agents based on an iterated merge-then-revise change function for belief profiles are introduced and studied. The processes from the first family are sceptical in the sense that at any revision step, each agent considers that her current beliefs are more important than the current beliefs of the group, while the processes from the other family are credulous. Some key features of such conciliation processes are pointed out for several merging operators; especially, the stationarity issue, the existence of consensus and the properties of the induced iterated merging operators are investigated.

EU conciliation delegates: Responsible or runaway agents?

This analysis tests the assumptions of the principal–agent model on delegation in EU conciliation processes and discusses the implications of the empirical results for the value of the model as a general framework of delegation. It shows that irresponsible behaviour by the EU conciliation committee is rare, contrary to the usual prediction of the principal–agent framework, because a series of the common assumptions of the model are not fulfilled. It is argued that, in a number of cases, the principal–agent model may still be relevant if some of its assumptions are endogenised into the model as characteristics of the environment, but that there may be other types of delegation where the core assumptions of the model do not apply. The findings are generated on the basis of different data sources such as official documents from the EU institutions, descriptive statistics and semi-structured interviews.

Towards a Model for Co-working in Family Conciliation

SUMMARY This article surveys the present state of co-working in the practice of those independent family conciliation services affiliated to the National Family Conciliation Council. It proposes that a model of co-working is needed that is specifically tailored to conciliation practice. It sets out progress towards such a model in a particular agency—the Swindon Family Conciliation Service. It develops a theoretical base for this model from the concepts of 'content' and 'process' which it links with the 'underlying' and 'substantive' issues brought up by separating and divorcing couples for resolution. It draws these ideas from writings about divorce experience and negotiation procedures. It then presents a particular case, with an extract from an actual interview in which the model is used, and introduces a diagrammatic format for analysing conciliation processes in terms of the model proposed. The primary aim of independent out-of-court family conciliation services, as stated in the extended Code of Practice of the National Family Conciliation Council is to: 'Help couples involved in separation and divorce reduce the area or intensity of conflict between them and to work towards reaching agreements especially in disputes concerning their children'.

Thoughts towards a model for conciliation and conflict resolution in the family court of australia

Abstract Conciliation is a major function of Family Court Lawyers and Counsellors. A systems model is presented to guide thinking about and the practice of conciliation of disputes in a legal setting. Sub-systems include the interview, the parents, the conciliator, conciliation, negotiation and legal processes. Nine goals for the process are listed, and selected theory and findings from the literature of counselling and psychotherapy, marriage and family counselling, industrial relations, organisation development, conflict resolution and areas of general psychology are discussed in relation to the model. The parents' cognitive schemas, the need for skills training and other learning experiences for the parents, and the role of the conciliator as a “third party” in a bargaining situation, are particular emphases.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA

The unique Australian system of controlling industrial relations matters was created in the early 1900's against a background of disastrous national strikes in the 1890's and during the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia.The Australian Constitution was framed to include specific powers to protect the country and the general public from the consequences of industrial disputes between employers and employees by requiring conciliation processes to be followed and, if they failed, for compulsory arbitration of the dispute.The division of powers between the Commonwealth and State Governments causes complications and inconsistencies and has highlighted the intrusion of political considerations into industrial relations problems.The Commonwealth and most State Governments have created systems based on registered organisations of employers and employees. Registration is intended to create rights and obligations and to result in responsible bodies being subject to the enforcement procedures of the arbitration tribunals. Registration also delineates the scope of membership coverage and the industries in which the registered bodies may operate. In theory, there should be no overlapping of registered constitutions and therefore no demarcation or "jurisdictional" type disputes. A major problem has been created by registration based on crafts or occupations instead of on an industry basis. This has resulted in up to 15 or more unions having members in, even, medium sized establishments.The recent trend has been towards amalgamations of employer and employee organisations and the formation of "peak" employer and employee councils-the CAI and the ACTU. The activities of these Councils is leading to a centralised system of wage fixation and towards common standards of conditions of employment with deviations only to meet special circumstances. This tends to cause any change in wage rates or conditions of employment in any one area to "flow" into other areas and industries on a "comparative wage justice" basis.The expansion of onshore exploration and development of the hydrocarbons industry into offshore areas has resulted in more unions becoming involved in the industry, with inconsistencies between land based and maritime unions in approaches to construction and production work.Much work will be required by employers and their organisations within the hydrocarbons industry to overcome the industrial relations difficulties that will arise at interfaces between them and other well established industries.