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Stark I and Stark II Laws and Physician Self Referral

referrals directed towards certain facilities owned or operated by a physician or their family member might also be prevented, eve...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

PhysicianOffice Software Marketing Plan

experience and former medical office managers who know well the requirements of medical offices administrative needs and the chang...

Hospital Compliance Plan Revision

trail," the discrepancy can result in a billing error that no one intended. Government regulations contain specific require...

Literature Review on Dementia and Healthcare Employee Attitudes

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

PhysicianOffice Software Business Plan

health care industry continues to writhe through its evolution away from the structure in which it has operated for more than a ha...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Canada and Electronic Order Entry

and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET): The Potential Pitfalls of Reimbursement

availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...

Physician Induced Demand: Examples From Obstretics

on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Sylvia Plath, Mirror & Metaphors

topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Managed Care and an Interview with a Doctor

In five pages this paper presents a physician interview sample in which he expresses the system changes he would implement with re...

Responsibility of Physicians and Managed Care

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

A Case for World History Textbook Inclusion of Nostradamus

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an argument supporting the inclusion of Nostradamus in textbooks on world history is made for his...

Overview of Guillain Barre Syndrome

may act as triggers. A front-running candidate for the latter is Campylobacter jejuni infection. Since vaccines exert their effect...

Organ Donations and Discussions Between Family Members and Physicians

In five pages this paper discusses the process of organ donations and what physicians need to know before discussing them with pat...

Perspectives on Community Nursing

In eight pages a community nursing issue in which an educational interaction between a student nurse and a patient did not go well...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Health Care and Unions

care. Their numbers have grown dramatically in the decade of the 1990s as hospitals have failed to escape the same downsizing tre...

Medical Services' Supply and Demand

In six pages physicians and medical services are examined in terms of their classification as inelastic products and the effects o...