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care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

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

designed to meet an organizations goals and objectives. Then there is the top-down theory, which states that management doesnt wan...

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

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

why. First of all, the student researching this topic does not offer any indication of what specific "everyday life issues" were...

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

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

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...