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Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Prochoice v. Prolife

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

Costly Medical Interventions Should There Be Limitations Placed Upon Them?

fact is that many high tech procedures are rarely performed on the elderly. Aggressive cardiovascular procedures and cancer chemot...

Analgesia and Anesthesia Uses in Infants

In twelve pages this paper analyzes using the drug fentanyl on neonates as a pain reliever during surgery or painful medical proce...

Obesity and Bariatric or Gastric Bypass Surgery

is the largest non-profit healthcare organization in the United States and currently oversees the operations of 8 million particip...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

A Review of the Article 'Parent behavior and child distress during urethral catherization'

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

Grief and a Breast Cancer Mastectomy

likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...

Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Medical Imaging and the Impact of Technology

there was destined to be a change with regard to the overall application in order for computers to become significantly more user-...

Artificial Insemination Dilemmas

process that has been practiced for several years, but it has become simpler - and therefore more complicated - in recent years. ...

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Nuclear Medicine

which in and of itself was not unusual but it was the fact that this tube was enveloped in thick, black cardboard that caused Roen...

Music as a Nursing Intervention

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

Stark Laws And Other Issues

is referred for tests, a medical code is given to that referral (Dietrich, n.d.). If a clinic of several physicians, for example, ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical Coding, and Patient Privacy Rights

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

Medical Coding and Billing

considered the field as a whole, and shown that it is a growing profession with significant job possibilities, the student should ...

Career Paths in Health Information Technology

are the people who make sure these records are accurate. In that we see that a health information technician is perhaps just as va...

An Application to a University's School of Allied Health Professions

coding specialist - is accounted for differently than that of direct labor, and there is no employer arrangement whereby the physi...

AMA's Code of Conduct

In three pages this paper discusses 2 points of the American Medical Associations Code of Conduct. Three sources are cited in the...

Medical Coding and Billing

for those over 65. For many people, it is their only means of obtaining a doctors care. This paper discusses Medicare as well as m...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

The Clash of Parents and Medical Professionals in 'Baby Owens'

ultrasound or even an abdominal x-ray (National Institute of Health, 2004). Such was the case with Baby Owens. After the ...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Organizational Responsibility and Ethics

low and they stopped taking Medicare patients (Gale, 1999). While there was a campaign for higher subsidies, nothing really happen...

Medical School Application

gave me the potential opportunity to study at some of the best colleges and universities in the world. My brother and I are the o...

Right to Refuse Treatment

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

Essay on Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform

a little out of line. But even those physicians who werent obstetricians ran into problems. In an effort to avoid any type ...

Medical Records Decentralization Literature Review

discusses yet another medical records software called NetVault, a software program that represents a radical departure from soluti...

HCFA and the Diagnosis Related Group

case fluctuate from this standard (Long Island Business News, 2002). The diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) are not only defined ...