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The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Project for Enhancing a Medical Service Web Site

challenges and the practical elements such as resource requirements. The final aspects will also be presented to support the propo...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Charting the Stages of an Insurance Claim Adjudication

The paper is made up of a flowchart created based on information is applied by the student, demonstrating the different stages tha...

Assisted Suicide - Taking a Contrary View

issue that has the potential to affect all of us. Recently, this issue has come under the spotlight with several media sources run...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

Medical Model and Psychology

in the 19th century. G. Stanley Hall was strongly influenced by Darwins theories of evolution. It was the catalyst for Halls scie...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

HEALTH CARE ISSUE: RIGHT TO DIE

stopped (Quill, 2005). The question was centered around what Terri would have wanted - and it was here that Michael Schiavo and Te...

Market Segmentation and Lifestyle Analysis

of a fully realized marketing strategy. In preparation for marketing to the community, it is first necessary to make an analysis...

Marketing of the Maimonides Hospital

Coronary Intervention Excellence Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The second set of excellence is the Jaffe Stroke Centre (Maimondies...

Medical Error: Ethical Concerns

the last two months, Patton-Fuller has experienced seven cases of medical error. Two patients required emergency assistance ...

ONC-COORDINATED FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION PLAN AND GRANT HOSPITAL

ultimately help develop a health information technology network that would tie together public and private health care sectors (De...

Psychological Testing

by the teacher although legally, the parents can make this referral. In the educational setting, a psychologist would determine ex...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MISSION STATEMENTS

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

Internet Information on Cardiovascular Drugs

of heart-related problems. This paper uses Internet sites, specifically WebMD and Medscape to find information on these drugs. Di...

In Support of Legalizaing Marijuana

Evidence in Support of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Purposes Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by...

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...

RAC, Medical

the hospital training guidelines to ascertain that all measures have been addressed and reached a conclusion. At that time, it is ...

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 ...

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...