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organizations representing a broad group of stakeholders interested in quality.2 There are layers upon layers of management invol...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...