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up with Iraqi fundamentalists. To what extent did personal opinion play a role in determining someones moderate stance if he mere...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

Policy Institute found that only 28 percent of the hospital chief quality officers surveyed felt that patient satisfaction with th...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

with opioids and can be reversed with the antagonist flumazenil (Krauss and Green, 2006). During the procedure, midazolam is used ...

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...