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Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Medical Research: Can It Be Done Ethically?

there are examples, especially in research, where ethics has been abandoned in the hope of achieving some sort of breakthrough. Th...

Electronic Medical Records

www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm for more information on using this paper properly June, 2010 Some believe that Electronic Me...

Answers to Question on Army Healthcare

process or service: The service vision of health care consists of four basic elements, which are "a targeted market, a well-define...

Steps Towards Electronic Medical Records

wonder many private companies are attempting to break into it, particularly since the writing on the wall seems to suggest more an...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

Key People, Structure and Dispute Resolution in a Healthcare Organization

their relevant chiefs. This creates a complex organizational structure, as in addition to the organization to departments the has...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

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...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

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...

The Flaws in the Peer Review System

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the use of the peer review system for physicians in situations of potential medic...

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 ...

EMR IMPLEMENTATION - AN OVERVIEW

This is not to suggest, however, that everything would be rosy with EMR implementation. For one thing, EMR hardware and software a...

Richard Branson's Ventures into Healthcare

The company was founded by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson in 1970. He began with a magazine he wanted to publish, then he and a ...

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,...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Impact on the Narrator

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

Health Care in Australia; Improving the Medical Workplace

This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...

Hypertension and Two Sites from the World Wide Web

mainstream medical establishment itself can produce invalid web sites when its goal of economic profit overrides its goal of most ...

PSS World Medical Inc. (SWOT Analysis)

2006). This demonstrates a lack of research, or poor judgment, on the part of executives. The company anticipates that the same pr...

Gender Roles and the Medical Field

of females in allopathic medical school constituted forty-five percent of the total number of students (Salsberg and Forte, 2002)....

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...

X-Ray Technician

they need for formulating a diagnosis. The data provided by these technicians allows clinicians to repair broken bones and create ...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

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

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...