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subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

educational providers. Todays workplace is characterized by an incontestable shortage of appropriately trained workers. Wh...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

positive patient response. The authors contended that tight control of blood glucose reduces the risk of microvascular and macrov...

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

contracts back in the 1970s. In the last few years, the facility see-sawed between economic ruin and financial stability. A majo...

In five pages this paper discusses managed care effects upon health care systems with its various problems considered. Six source...

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

In five pages this paper considers health care's present status with an approach option proposed. Ten sources are cited in the bi...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...