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who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

less likely to have advanced directives (Hanson and Rodgman, 1996). This same study reported the use of advanced directives incre...

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

indicator of quality, there remains a dearth of published research addressing the issue. There are some studies that address wait...

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

the way change should be managed and resistance overcome. 2. Pressures for Change Where change its to occur there have be...

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

for my country. I want to first let you know that I thoroughly enjoy working for such a prestigious agency, but we are living in...

them if they prove to be less than adequate (Christensen, 1999). The organization that wants (or needs) to try on different appro...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

dependent on how leaders lead and managers manage. For example, goals are not likely to be achieved if managers do not advise empl...

biphenyls" combined to prove up to "1000 times more potent in mimicking estrogen when tested in combination" (ORI casesummaries.as...

who is responsible to whom (Department of Health and Human Services, About, 1998). Each Bureau has an overall manager who reports ...

of the sexes. In the United Kingdom the state pension was available at two different ages, sixty for women and sixty five for men....

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

this thesis makes use of the Actor Network Theory it is appropriate to use a research paradigm that may be seen as able to cope wi...

contribute in practice to the understanding of implementation of the electronic patient record. To undertake this there will be a...

given a great deal of attention. All of business has changed today - some aspects have changed in philosophy; others have been af...

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

put in their mouths. The concern was so great, that during the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

homeopathic medicine and complementary therapies have been in Englands NHS (Evidence Influencing British Health Authorities Decisi...

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

service in a plan is paramount (Hesketh, 1998). In addition, with Dr. Finch (presumably) wanting to be seen as a "communit...

the emphasis to more localised care with the primary health care trusts holding more of a an administrative and strategic role. ...

airline research, which indicates how errors occur. Additional subtopic include the standard hospital protocol and how the "five r...

a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...