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THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Medical Knowledge/Medieval Europe v. Arab World

texts, such as the works of Hippocrates and Galen, were held by the Roman Catholic Church, whose policies toward medicine were des...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

BUSINESS PLAN EVALUATION -- FOSSA MEDICAL

this benchmark assessment in this section comes in the area of personnel. There is no urologist mentioned -- and given that one of...

Statistical Analysis of Research Results

same result can come from a wide variety of underlying results. It may be that the underlying results are density population, all ...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Data Security Policies: A Comparison of Three Health Care Facility Policies

any unlawful or inappropriate use. Nor may such use result in "personal financial gain or the benefit of any third party", waste ...

Reaction Paper on a Case Study

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...

Autism: How Developmental Psychology Can Inform Practice

and after the training sessions, with results being virtually the same (Chin et al, 2000). Theory of mind, the ability to attribu...

Hoshin Planning Specific to Mortality Rates for Medical Conditions

screenings, and could be admitted to hospitals for rather routine reasons. Today, many individuals are quite ill when they finall...

Perfusionists

perfusionist education.) The current certification process, which is overseen by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

BUDGET CUTS AND MEDICAID ANALYSIS

health outcomes (Wilson, 2006). Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma are at issue as well (Wilson, 2006). Also, a...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Emerging Standards of Culturally Competent Care

to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...

James B Peake

James B Peake was appointed to the position of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2007. He came to this poison following a disti...

National Naval Medical Center Mission and Values

"We serve as a resource for homeland defense and humanitarian assistance * "We care for the President and the Nations leaders" (Vi...

THE LEGALITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MEDICAL CARE

beliefs by refraining from eating," the court didnt agree. The court held that even if the children were mature enough to exercise...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

EMRs, An IT Trend in Health Care Record-Keeping

This research paper pertains to electronic medical record (EMR) systems and how this constitutes a significant trend in IT. Eight ...

Longevity, Contributing Environmental Factors

This essay discusses the environmental factors that contribute to increases in longevity. These include medical advancements, cont...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

Medical Malpractice, Overview of State Statutes

This research paper discusses issues relevant to medical malpractice tort reform. The statutes of Oregon and Virginia are describe...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

Electronic Medical Records, An Analysis

This research paper describes the factors that hospitals purchasing an electronic medical records (EMR) system. Fifteen pages in l...

Planning and Implementation of EMR Systems

This research paper describes research that pertains to the benefits derives from, as well as the planning and implementation of e...

Electronic Stethoscope, Implementation Plan

This essay describes an implementation plan for a small suburban medical practice regarding the use of a Littmann 3200 electronic ...