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Disparities in Health Care Access

Not every American has the same opportunity to access and receive quality health care services. There are a number of social, econ...

CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

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

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 ...

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...

Effects and Treatments of Dehydration

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

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,...

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...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

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 ...

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...

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...

Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

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...

Fort Bend County, Texas/Health Care Spending

This paper offers a summary of "Health care spending, quality and outcomes: More isn't always better" by Fisher, et al (2009). The...

Proposal Hospital Implement Electronic Management

Information technology plays a major role in mitigating different issues such as increasing demand, constrained resources, continu...

Innovation and Adoption in Health Care

This essay pertains to the factors affecting adoption of technological innovation and the ways in which it impacts the quality of ...

What Would a Leader Do

The writer reflects on several videos led by different leadership experts. A situation is presented that deals with a geriatric ce...

Health Care Equality

In nine pages the importance of ensuring that high quality health care is received by everyone regardless of socioeconomic positio...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Health Care, Data Security, and Legislation

of a celebritys medical information and so on, there has been prompt attention to security by the law. There are many situations ...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

Scope Of Business Within The American Society For Quality (ASQ)

as a method of management that stresses its focal point - and bottom line - on utmost quality, there are a number of consideration...