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Institutional Neglect and Abuse of Senior Citizens

A paper containing twenty six pages discusses how senior citizens can be neglected and abused in institutional settings and examin...

Managing Quality and Risk Management in a Mental Health Environment

healthcare the purpose and key concepts in the general healthcare environment and in a mental healthcare facility and the identifi...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Ostomy Wounds

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Marrone and His Vision of Dying Dying

Death and dying are a major concern in American society today. Robert Marrone addressed the various issues in Death, Mourning, and...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

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...

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 ...

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...

Medical Error: Ethical Concerns

the last two months, Patton-Fuller has experienced seven cases of medical error. Two patients required emergency assistance ...

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...

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...

Communitarian Perspective, Informaticist

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

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...

HIPAA Rights And Their Impact Upon Medical Errors In The Emergency Room

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

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 ...

Health Care Legislation: A Multi-Dimensional Concept

labyrinthine topic which is overwhelming in terms of both accessibility and comprehension. This is because the health care industr...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

Decentralization and Respiratory Care Departments

In six pages this paper discusses the costs and quality of health care in a consideration of the impact of decentralization in thi...