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Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Psychological Testing

by the teacher although legally, the parents can make this referral. In the educational setting, a psychologist would determine ex...

Tax Reform: Progressive, Flat or Sales Tax

system would benefit families, as the only exemption included in the system would be one based on the size of the family. For exam...

Questions on Medical Ethics

to the costs of technology, the costs of long-term care, and benefits of advanced technology in prolonging life. Q1: What are th...

Communitarian Perspective, Informaticist

a negative effect on patient care. Sara will most likely need to use conflict management strategies. These include using active ...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Assessment of Health Leaflet

in a very clear text, against a plain background1, with text written in blue making it very easy to read. This also helps the targ...

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...

ONC-COORDINATED FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION PLAN AND GRANT HOSPITAL

ultimately help develop a health information technology network that would tie together public and private health care sectors (De...

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...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

Medical Model and Psychology

in the 19th century. G. Stanley Hall was strongly influenced by Darwins theories of evolution. It was the catalyst for Halls scie...

Marketing of the Maimonides Hospital

Coronary Intervention Excellence Award in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The second set of excellence is the Jaffe Stroke Centre (Maimondies...

Market Segmentation and Lifestyle Analysis

of a fully realized marketing strategy. In preparation for marketing to the community, it is first necessary to make an analysis...

Medical Treatment and Religious Affiliation

factors of religious affiliation on belief and health consciousness, for society as a whole. The authors carried out their study...

The Relative Merits of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...

Project for Enhancing a Medical Service Web Site

challenges and the practical elements such as resource requirements. The final aspects will also be presented to support the propo...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

ARGUING FOR TAX REFORM

a closer look at this. A little more than a decade ago, the American Enterprise Institute released a study pointing out that tax r...

Overview of Sepsis

and symptoms, such as edema and positive fluid balance (Weiss, et al, 2009). Additional criteria include inflammatory variables su...

Alzheimer's Disease

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

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

The Initiative for Integrating Healthcare Enterprises

to meet all the competitive needs of health care organizations in a capitalistic environment: the Integrating Healthcare Enterpris...

Addiction Theories, Definitions and Issues

basis. Rather than automatically discount such plans, practitioners must always evaluate these tentative suicide plans and the int...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Psychology Questions on Mental Disorders and Medication Use

practitioners with information to determine whether a patients symptoms can be explained organically as a result of an actual heal...

Stem Cell Research and Application

Stem cells offer tremendous potential to the human condition. Stem cell research offers a potential benefit...

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS AND RISKS

Discusses contingencies and risk management pertaining to electronic medical records. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliograp...

IT Applications for Health Care Reform

technology. It stands to reason then, that an embrace of 21st century technology should be a key starting point in moving towards ...