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In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

This research paper offers a case study of J.H., a 38-year-old father of 3, who has suffered a myocardial infarction. The case stu...

Big Data Analytics is becoming more common in healthcare institutions because the outcomes include cost reduction, error reduction...

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

or where the body produces insulin, but for some reason the insulin does not do as it was intended, meaning the body can not metab...

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

technology. It stands to reason then, that an embrace of 21st century technology should be a key starting point in moving towards ...

is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

medicinal purposes, but it is thought that its origin is tied to the caves of France dated to as early as 25,000 BCE ("History of ...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

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

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...

This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

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

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...