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In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...
In seven pages this paper examines freedom of choice options for patients and how they are affected by managed health care. Six s...
defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...
In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...
having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...
partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...
that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...
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...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...
important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...
in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...
hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...
markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...
Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...
now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...
(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...
a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...
healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...
patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...
workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...
In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...
In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...
issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...
All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...