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Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

National Health Service Performance Assessment

the polices and feeling ion the country there probably would still have been a National Health Service without him, but he also sh...

Local Health Care And Quality Improvement

medical issues are not handled when they first occur. The change toward greater quality from an administrative standpoint i...

Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

Management Concepts

even e the source of a competitive advantage (Mintzberg et al, 2008). By comparison the purchase of a small ticket items, ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

Tone and Expectations of Nursing Managers' Role

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

The Failure of Health Issues of the Homeless to Be Addressed by NHS Policies

The homeless population in the UK suffer a high level of inequality in terms of quality and access to healthcare services. The pap...

Disparities in Health Care Access

Not every American has the same opportunity to access and receive quality health care services. There are a number of social, econ...

Innovation and Adoption in Health Care

This essay pertains to the factors affecting adoption of technological innovation and the ways in which it impacts the quality of ...

An Efficacy Evaluation of a Private Not for Profit Wellness Center

In four pages the efficacy of this wellness center is evaluated through clinical pathways as a way of improving health care costs ...

Fort Bend County, Texas/Health Care Spending

This paper offers a summary of "Health care spending, quality and outcomes: More isn't always better" by Fisher, et al (2009). The...

Proposal Hospital Implement Electronic Management

Information technology plays a major role in mitigating different issues such as increasing demand, constrained resources, continu...

Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Home Health Care Performance Improvement Quality Assessment

In ten pages this literature review on home health care focuses upon performance improvement in a quality assessment that is based...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Health Care Equality

In nine pages the importance of ensuring that high quality health care is received by everyone regardless of socioeconomic positio...

Art and Life of Ernest Hemingway

in Europe. He was seriously wounded in Italy, and incurred nearly a dozen operations to restore complete function to his knee, whi...

Coalition Buyers Health Care Action Group

In eleven pages a Minnesota coalition known as Buyers Health Care Action Group is discussed in terms of how it works, its efforts ...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

In nineteen pages this paper discusses health care services' infrastructure and considers reengineering and quality improvements t...

Medicaid Fraud and Medicare

of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...

Health Care Delivery and Quality Control Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines health care delivery in terms of the need for quality control and also discusses various relat...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Health Care and Organizational Performance

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...