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of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
Hospital readmissions of patients is upsetting to patients and families, especially when that readmission occurs within 30 days of...
More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...
A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...
A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...
In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...
Computerized databases have been developed with a specific purpose in mind, usually there will be a schema or a description of the...
and is a major referral and treatment center in the northern New Jersey metropolitan area (2001). Affiliated with the complex i...
the past has been a repository of past events, a record of organizational history in several areas. "But these days we expect mor...
real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...
The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...
planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...
In eight pages an automobile rental company and the database it would need to best address its needs are considered in an ER techn...
type. The database can be accessed with the use of standard query language (SQL), and tables may be combined or cross referenced w...
far between. Now, however, with the ubiquity of technology constantly increasing, the vast majority of organizations are employing...
Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
This 25 page paper discusses the field of evaluation with regard to academic programs. The paper includes a literature review of p...
In a paper consisting of fifteen pages Chapter 7 bankruptcy or the discharge of most consumer debts is examined and include its in...
in the U.S. each year approximately 150,000 would be found to be discharged without just cause if they had available to them the s...
issues is admirable and goes to a sense of family care. Also, the facility incorporates offices of the Red Cross ("US Naval Hospit...
This 5 page paper looks at some of the basic issues to be considered when designing a database from considering the use of either ...
examine three different types of database systems -- relational database management system; the object-oriented database system an...
that applied to copyright protection", the second is to "safeguard the investment of database makers" and the third is to "ensure ...
been as long as 8 hours prior to dying (IHI, Getting, 2005). Had additional services been provided, the patient would not have die...
by no means efficient. Ahn and Kim (2002) write that the upper layers of an OO database management system "should be adapted to t...
the mouth. People tend to have a natural distaste for rules and authority, but generally this is only because the rules that have ...
technological landscape that gave rise to the World Wide Web, and along with it, 21st century communications. Computerized databas...
Oracle databases are well known and easy to utilize for the design of the database, section 3 will look a this in more detail. 2....