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Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

Local Health Care And Quality Improvement

medical issues are not handled when they first occur. The change toward greater quality from an administrative standpoint i...

Health Care Delivery and Quality Control Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines health care delivery in terms of the need for quality control and also discusses various relat...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

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...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Home Health Care Quality Enhancement

In six pages the home health care environment is the focus of this performance enhancement evaluation. Eight sources are cited in...

Quality of Life and Health Care Policies

In five pages this paper examines public policy with regard to health care in a consideration of whether or not it is improving th...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Continuous Quality of Care

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Collaboration, Accountability, Improving Quality of Care

This research paper pertains to the challenges confronting a hospital and the manner in which the hospital resolved them. Five pag...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

In nineteen pages this paper discusses health care services' infrastructure and considers reengineering and quality improvements t...

Compliance and Geriatric Diabetes

In twelve pages this paper provides an article literature review pertaining to compliance and geriatric diabetes. Ten sources are...

Medicaid Fraud and Medicare

of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...

Coalition Buyers Health Care Action Group

In eleven pages a Minnesota coalition known as Buyers Health Care Action Group is discussed in terms of how it works, its efforts ...

Effects and Treatments of Dehydration

regulate its systems. Treatment for this type of debilitation include administering a supplemental solution to replace the water, ...

Newark Beth Israel Hospital Geriatric Patient Post Discharge Monitoring

and is a major referral and treatment center in the northern New Jersey metropolitan area (2001). Affiliated with the complex i...

An Efficacy Evaluation of a Private Not for Profit Wellness Center

In four pages the efficacy of this wellness center is evaluated through clinical pathways as a way of improving health care costs ...

Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Health Care and Organizational Performance

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Geriatrics and Orthostasis

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

National Health Service Performance Assessment

the polices and feeling ion the country there probably would still have been a National Health Service without him, but he also sh...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

U.S. and Russia Issue Comparison

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the U.S. and Russia in terms of such issues as life quality for citizens, health c...

Management Concepts

even e the source of a competitive advantage (Mintzberg et al, 2008). By comparison the purchase of a small ticket items, ...

Neuman Systems Theory of Nursing

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....