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Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

E-Health and Women's Hypertension

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

What Influences Policy-Making

the family when there is an advance directive (Santo, 2010). It is the issue of ending ones life that causes great conflict. The g...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

Using Bar Coding to Reduce Errors in Medicine Administration

technology systems" (Anderson and Wittwer, 2004, p. 5). Anderson and Wittwer describe the evolution of the system St. Marys uses,...

OLS Regression, Non Normally Distributed Errors, and Heteroskedasticity and Multicollinearity Problems

line or a curve that indicates the best fit. In effect this is the line that gives the least squares on the graph between the line...

Article Review on Bisection Errors

two illustrations as to whether they were the same thing or different. The patient was able to detect a finger that was wiggling ...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the Element of Tragedy

An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...

The Element of Tragedy in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

An analysis of the element of tragedy in this classic by William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity and familial relationships are de...

Runway Errors or Incursions

that we have been able to solve. The primary issue is not that there is a communications lag or unawareness, which of course does...

The Error of Reconstruction by Kenneth Stampp and Revisionist History

Chapter One "What was real and fundamental was the idealism and the nobility of the two contending forces: the Yankees struggli...

Strategic Errors at Enron

to be on a continuing growth streak. Enron did not use proper or prudent caution in their diversification strategies. There did ...

Overview of Medication Errors

the University of California at San Diego, researchers analyzed over 62 million death certificates for the years 1979 through 2006...

Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Medication Error and STARS Incident Reporting

This research paper pertains to the a particular incident reported on the STARS systems at St. Joseph Medical Center. Five pages i...

Medication Error Kills Newborn

In this case, there were a series of system failures that included a language barrier, incomplete clinical information, unusual w...

HP, IBM, Kodak, McDonald's Errors

This paper reports changes made at these four large corporations. The change processes are compared to Kotter's eight stage proces...

Computerized System in the Prevention of Medication Errors

care (OMalley, 2007). The aim of this essay is to offer an overview of this problem, focusing on how it applies to a specific ho...

Nursing Practice and Medication Errors

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Thinking Errors, Research Abilities, and Critical Thinking

in any field is vital to the industrys lifeblood; however, it may mean the difference between life and death within, for example, ...

Lessening Aviation Error Through Improved Pilot Attentiveness

before an accident occurs. Aircraft accidents relating to faulty autopilot devices are certainly not uncommon. Although t...

California State Department Of Mental Health: Infant Preschool Family Mental Health Initiative Delivery Of Services

of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...

Fallacies and Errors

in a faulty decision. There are fallacies of relevance, ambiguity and presumption. Relevance fallacies present premises that are n...

Mathematical Errors in 7th Grade

The following is a breakdown of the problem example given and the way in which the problem can be used to demonstrate why the mult...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Mental Health Therapy Options, Maintenance of Treating Mental Health Issues, and Cost Effective Measures

Cost-Effective Mental Health Care a) 12-Step Self-Help Group Therapies Researchers at the Stanford University School...

Health Data Interactive and the National Center for Health Statistics

This paper explores human longevity as pictured by government statistics. Why is human longevity increasing at the same time dise...

Children's Dental Health and Public Health Policy

not view dentistry as very important. Some citizens see it as optional, but oral health is anything but. Apparently, citizens need...

Economic and Political Perspectives on Health, Aging, and Utilization of Health Services

but much of the cost is a simple reflection of the fact that medical science is keeping people alive longer than it has in previou...