Introduction: Probing the System: Feminist Complications of Automated Technologies, Flows, and Practices of Everyday Life

This Special Section presents diverse scholarly voices examining the silenced, underexposed, intersectional forces that fortify science and technology platforms in their work to automate public abidance. The articles probe, from diverse global locations and perspectives, the contemporary work of various “platforms,” understood broadly as technology and software, health, social media, and policy platforms. The articles probe these systems and platforms with attention to the assumptions and practices embedded in their algorithms, protocols, design specifications, and communications, and, in turn, the political, cultural, governance, and mediated practices they make possible. The research studies and practice-based work herein expose the complex and shifting sociopolitical codes and contexts that condition technology, artificial intelligence (AI), surveillance, health, social media, and state platforms that support systems of care, news, communication, and governance. These exposures show how platform craftiness works differently in different spaces to privilege and damage, often with ghostly obscurity. Attentive to how platforms operate in complex contemporary viral modes, the section seeks to locate and expose these traces, draped in what communication scholars Sangeet Kumar and Radhika Parameswaran (2018, 345) refer to as “chameleon cultural codes” that, in changing and transforming into unrecognizable forms, feed global imaginaries.

961 ROSE's Proforma: A Tool to Improve Quality and Safety of Surgical Handover

Aim Accurate and rigorous handover is paramount in surgery. Human factor can unfortunately affect handovers resulting unsafe for patients. The ROSE’S handover proforma is a structured methodology which has been created according to the RCSEng guidelines to facilitate communication ensuring an effective delivering of information concerning the care of surgical patients. Method ROSE is the acronym for REASON, OBSERVATION, SHIFT, ESCALATION and it is made of multiple subparts that cover the majority of the information that need to be shared between team members such as wound care, NEWS score, medications, diagnostic tests, assessments of lines (catheter, cannula, drain, CVC), social situation, deterioration, medical history as required by guidelines of RCSEng. The timing of 40 handovers has been recorded, of these 20 were performed by using the ROSE’s form. A questionnaire has been administered before and after the implementation of the Rose’s handover. Results The average time for handover a surgical patient increased from 1.07 to 3.26 minutes with ROSE’s form. The 82.14% of the staff who tried it thought that the form resulted easy to navigate, brief and complete in details. It is a safer practice for the 71.43% of the staff. The quality and the accuracy of the handover given was perceived as improved by the 96.46% of the staff that used it. Conclusions A structured surgical handover performed with a written form can be an easy and safe tool that can minimize human factor and technical errors especially out of hours. Clearly further research is needed; however, the preliminary results look encouraging.

Letter to Child Care News

Letter to the editor of Child Care News on the failure of behaviour therapy.