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Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Tools Of The Trade: Hypodermic Needles, Stethoscopes And Thermometer

served to improve the manner by which physicians can detect issues with the heart that previous equipment was unable to do, not th...

Should Churches Be Taxed - Should The Government Fund Medical Research

and they need to continue to fund the studies that need to be done today. The benefits are vast. As we can conclude from past res...

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

to benefits while they are on their absence of leave (Wikipedia, 2006). "Generally, the Act ensures that all workers are able to t...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Assessing a Potential Investment in an MRI Scanner

than having opportunity costs this may be an opportunity provider and as a complimentary service to other core services that are o...

Community Project: Self-Care For OCD

at some point throughout their lives, with three to five million Americans of both genders and all race/socioeconomic background o...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

The Holocaust and the Role of the Medical Community

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

A COMPARISON OF MEDICAL DATA SYSTEMS, NOW AND 20 YEARS AGO

is relying a great deal on up-to-date information systems and instantaneous information to ensure that patients can receive the be...

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN OF BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER BURN UNIT

can be defined as "a formal, guided process for integrating the people, information and technology of an organization" (Autrey, 19...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Medical Transport and the Impact of Economic Forecasts

forecast the US economy to grow by 2.1% in 2010 and 2.4% in 2011 (Goldman Sachs, 2009). There does appear to be an agreement regar...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...

Ways to Improve Patient Intake Efficiency

is devoted to the intake of new patients frequently constitutes the "greatest time sink in a physicians practice" (Noffsinger, 200...

Using Medical Marijuana

number of states. Predictably, this has caused a great deal of controversy. This paper considers the following questions: What con...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Impact on the Narrator

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

Health Care in Australia; Improving the Medical Workplace

This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...

Steps Towards Electronic Medical Records

wonder many private companies are attempting to break into it, particularly since the writing on the wall seems to suggest more an...

The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT SAFETY AND USE OF HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT THEORIES

This Paper, Please Visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm Introduction "Medical errors and patient safety are urgent ...

EMR IMPLEMENTATION - AN OVERVIEW

This is not to suggest, however, that everything would be rosy with EMR implementation. For one thing, EMR hardware and software a...