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Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Reducing Medical Errors

focuses on methods to reduce errors and also improve the safety will focus on individual nursing skills and adherence to protocols...

Medical Economics - Creating Budgets for Clinical Trials

to assess the efficacy of a treatment, where the difference tested for subjects is the difference between a treatment and a placeb...

Medical Treatments for Iraq Veterans

the difference for many critically wounded soldiers (Warikoo, 2005). During the Vietnam conflict, the average time it took for a w...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

MEDICALIZATION AND THE MEDICAL LITERATURE

sick," and the pharmaceutical industry promotes this idea through sponsorships and commercials, all of which encourage widening th...

The Impact of the Family Medical Leave Act

home, or if the employee must be home to care for a sick parent, child, or spouse ("The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993," 200...

Medical History: Smallpox

ascertain, with the most scrupulous precision, that no one whose case is here adduced had gone through the smallpox previous to th...

Reconstruction Efforts and Fire and Emergency Medical Services in Iraq

information necessary to the reconstruction effort. While addressing base emergency services problems will, hopefully, be...

Trends in Human Resource Issues: Medical Insurance

seem to be deteriorating as premiums increase and many believe that the nation is experiencing a health care crisis. Health policy...

The Use of Technology, and Privacy Issues, at Cayuga Medical Center

of the staff and patients. All things considered, it seems that information security policies are well implemented. 2. Describe ...

Alternative Medical Approaches

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...

Exoskeleton Via Medical Technology

Now the standard of care in some areas of physical rehabilitation, exoskeleton bionics have many potential applications in the fut...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

National Naval Medical Center

partners throughout the country and at offshore sites such as Guam; NNMC is the primary site of the entire massive system. Structu...

Advances in Medical Biotechnology

should improve. Snyder (2005) also looks at the fact that biotechnology has improved diagnostic capabilities. Diagnostic techniq...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Medical Ethical Dilemma - Stem Cell Research

totipotent cells, which becomes the placenta and inside the blastocyst are numerous embryonic stem cells (Sumanas, Inc., 2007). It...

MEDICAL CARE, HIPPA REGULATIONS, COBRA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

Statute of Limitations/Medical Malpractice

("Statute of Limitations"). SOLs differ from state-to-state and also depending on the type of legal claim that is involved. Actua...

Ethical and Practical Implications of the Medical Approach to Abnormal Behavior

of the illness and the stigma attached to it, and the way in which such an illness can distort reality, it may be difficult to rec...

California Law and Medical Practice

in the documents. The period of time that Dr. Sanders has to respond to the lawsuit is based on the method of service, and so can...

Devising Medical Intervention to Insure Benefit and to Avoid Harm

patients problem. Physician induced demand (PID), for example, occurs because of the ability of physicians to take advantage of t...

Allocating Medical Resources in the U.S.

allocated according to need and funds are obtained according to the ability of people to contribute? The answer is more complicat...

A Look at The Medical Drama

Mercy, is in its sixth season and has only introduced a solider in recent months. Owen Hunt arrived from Iraq in the fifth season....

Comparison Of Oakwood Southshore Medical Center And Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital

with the patient. The extent to which cancer is as much an emotional disease as it is a physical one, Oakwoods cancer center stri...

Unethical Medical Work

were not informed about the true nature of the study, and "deception was used throughout" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). One survivor said,...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...