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A COMPARISON OF MEDICAL DATA SYSTEMS, NOW AND 20 YEARS AGO

is relying a great deal on up-to-date information systems and instantaneous information to ensure that patients can receive the be...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

Euthanasia

do their loved ones wish, helping them die more nobly. But, that is a personal issue, and although illegal, is not an issue that, ...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

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

Terrorist Attack Scenario and the Use of the Incident Command System

major even. 2. Roles The multi jurisdiction approach helps to delineate the different tasks of the different agencies involved ...

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MISSION STATEMENTS

(Owens-White Outpatient Rehabilitation Center); cancer (Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center) and maternity/womens i...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Diagnosing Medical Problems

body" (What causes anemia?, 2009). The symptoms of this condition include pale skin and fatigue, and the causes include "[A]n iron...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Personal Reflections on Identifying and Dealing with Illness

can bring them a fan. There are, in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing...

Tools Of The Trade: Hypodermic Needles, Stethoscopes And Thermometer

served to improve the manner by which physicians can detect issues with the heart that previous equipment was unable to do, not th...

Should Churches Be Taxed - Should The Government Fund Medical Research

and they need to continue to fund the studies that need to be done today. The benefits are vast. As we can conclude from past res...

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

to benefits while they are on their absence of leave (Wikipedia, 2006). "Generally, the Act ensures that all workers are able to t...

The Holocaust and the Role of the Medical Community

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

Medical University Plan

This essay presents parts of a strategic plan for a medical university and explains why strategic planning is important. The essay...

Strategic Planning to Evaluation

This essay follows up on a strategic plan for a medical university. This essay discusses what an external environmental scan is, s...

Speech Recognition Medication Dictation Technology

This research paper pertains to speech recognition software that is used in regards to creating medical reports, such as those use...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Assessing a Potential Investment in an MRI Scanner

than having opportunity costs this may be an opportunity provider and as a complimentary service to other core services that are o...

Community Project: Self-Care For OCD

at some point throughout their lives, with three to five million Americans of both genders and all race/socioeconomic background o...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Analysis of the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the HR 29 Mobile Medical Homeless Health Improvement Act. Background details and stat...

Substance Abuse Effects

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

Nursing Theory and Nursing Philosophy at Montefiore

This research paper pertains to the Montefiore Medical Center's Mission, Values and Philosophy statement. The writer compares thes...

Legalization of Cannabis for Medicinal Use

This paper presents an essay that expounds on the thesis that cannabis should be legalized for medical use. The benefits of the dr...