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Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

Treatment and Outcomes for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Capital and Operating Projections for an IT Project

last start up cost is the start up training costs for the staff, if the staff are to be brought in from external sources there may...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Therapeutic Hypothermia

report on her search process, as several of the articles she provided are included in this review. This writer/tutor accessed the ...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

investment in the software program has a number of benefits as well as some challenges. The development of a system where patient ...

Temperature Reduction in Perioperative Therapy

meperidine and skin surface warming on shivering." AORN Journal July 2007: 113+. General OneFile. Web. 29 Aug. 2011....

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Case Study/COPD

not fully reversible, is treatable. This term describes a progressive airflow limitation that typically caused by an inflammatory ...

A Psychology Case Study

Disorder 300.3 Axis II: Schizoid Personality Disorder 301.20 Axis III: Abuse of caffeine. Axis IV: Stressors related to compl...

Ethical Concerns of Counselors

and his parents "Jessica" and his stepfather, "Peter." The entire family came to John seeking support for the declining condition...

ETHICS, BUSINESS AND LEGALITIES IN A CANCER CENTER

specialists when necessary and requires continuity of care protections to patients so they dont have to change health care provide...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...

Pro-Life Demonstrators

the people who are trying to obtain services. Historical Overview of Planned Parenthood Legal Status The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

Using Evidence Based Practice to Explore the Effectiveness of Constraint Induced Language Therapy

non-intense application produces better results, while others claim that intensity is the key to results. This paper will explore ...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...