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CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

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

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

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...

African Orphans Studies II

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

Geriatrics and Ethics

factors being considered are those pertaining to the welfare of the patient, the surgeon then should make a viable case that amput...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Proposal Hospital Implement Electronic Management

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Polarity Management

are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

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....

Management Concepts

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