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This paper seeks to drill home the message that strep throat and scarlet fever are serious illnesses and need to be treated by phy...
This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...
This 11 page paper provides an overview of the issues advance practice nurses face in expanding their practice. This paper demonst...
This paper considers the distinctions between non-physician practitioners and how these distinctions might affect Medicare reimbur...
Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...
to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...
argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...
a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...
a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...
incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...
The fear in my grandmothers eyes and my mothers sobs did not see to dispel him from his cautionary discussion, one that was design...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...
wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-Ne...
Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...
in the last months of his life than he had been previously, and that was something he would have denied them, and himself, had the...
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
of strengths, weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. However, one might readily argue how Nigeria would not be at the point it...
on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...
availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...
ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...
and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...
that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...
see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...
than 40% of current graduates from U.S. medical schools expected to enter generalist practice, the projected physician workforce w...