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Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Knowing About How to Use Energy and Life Differences

and carbon dioxide annually into the atmosphere, there is a great need to develop a safer, more environmentally-friendly source by...

Glenwood Resource Center Quality Measures

sets for itself for assistance in achieving its mission include customer focus, excellence, accountability and teamwork (Strategic...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

1990s and Increasing Economic Competition in the United States

In eleven pages this paper is written from 1989 worldview perspective and considers how America can become more economically compe...

Merger Between Norwest and Wells Fargo

which they raised their assessment of Wells-Fargo to match that of Norwest (Flannigan, 1998). Wells-Fargo was the second-largest ...

A Review of The Red Bow

man who is old, perhaps given up on life, and essentially a man who spends his days watching television and checking the mail. Wit...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

U.S. and China Manufacturing

at the way technology is used to control protection in China the country is ahead of the US in most areas, with a greater level of...

Product Reliability Program Design

Though marketers and non-consumer stakeholders might believe that reduced reliability could lead to increased sales in the future,...

Education and Quality Assessments

The sociological concepts which are explored in the course should, therefore, show how both structure and process can elucidate pa...

Historical and Economic Effects of Lean Manufacturing

was that great amounts of capital were invested in parts and product that no one was certain would sell. PC manufacturers learned...

Stronger Laws Regarding Air Quality Are Needed

the congressional activities affect the consumer. It was explained that Congresss passage of a law would force consumers to pay an...

Launching a New Steel Scissors Product

Week 6 Focus group Negotiate manufacturing contract <-------- Source input materials...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Fisheries and Global Environmental Resource Law

rebuild to historical population levels (The Economist, 1998). Our oceans are fascinating testaments to the complexity and ...

Sony's PlayStation 2 and Release Problems

gave us his famous "14 Points" delineated for the purpose of enabling the manufacturer to operate under the principles of TQM and ...

Quality Improvement Initiative and Pneumonia Vaccinations

effective in the frail elderly than in healthy, young adults (Ament, Fedson and Christie, 2001). As many as half of the elderly r...

Dell Inc.

country (Dell Annual Report, 2000). This company has achieved some amazing results, by 2000 the company was selling $50 million a ...

Sony's PlayStation 2 Release Problems

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

Realizing Objectives and the Johnson and Johnson Company

their family obligations but this could interfere with meeting the companys other objective/goal of earning a profit for sharehold...

Quality Delivery

of the children. The first aspect is to ensure that the product offered is the right one for the market place, this...

Toyota and Honda Compared

greatest focus currently is China, a country that will likely become the second largest consumers of automobiles by 2010 (behind t...

Leadership Qualities According to Schwarzkopf, Pagonis, and Drucker

for leadership in logistics in the Persian Gulf would be the utmost importance. He entrusted Pagonis for the job, and he came thro...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

'Nineteen' by Elizabeth Alexander

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

Health Care, Data Security, and Legislation

of a celebritys medical information and so on, there has been prompt attention to security by the law. There are many situations ...

Hospitals and TQM

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...