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American Hospitals and Medical Mistake Causes

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

Information Technology and Automated Medication Dispensing

In a paper consisting of seven pages the system of automated medication dispensing in a hospital setting is examined in terms of i...

Information Technology; Business Solutions

which may include the organizational goals and the need to be able to demonstrate accountability. One area where information tec...

DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND BALANCED SCORECARD

Focuses on how Duke Children's Hospital relied on the balanced scorecard system for improvement. There is 1 source listed in the b...

Patton-Fuller Hospital: The OSI Model and Network Protocols

the use of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) technology within the structure of a complex organization. Because the hospital is a...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

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...

Miami Valley Hospital & Performance Management

degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...

Lomita Hospital Case Study

of the different types of procedure; the result is a weighted average cost calculation. The department must contest this if the so...

Evaluation of "Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases"

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Iowa and Rural Hospital Survival Issues

In eight pages this paper examines the rural hospital economic survival issues the state of Iowa struggles with and the impact of ...

Hospital Systems of the 3rd World and QA

research specialists, radiological technicians, nurses aides, et al - in the hospital and the public health systems of Third World...

HMOs Evaluation

In five pages this paper considers an evaluation of HMOs and how integrated systems and hospitals can go about becoming more aggre...

Dissertation Proposal on Electronic Health and Patient Record Implementation

be used as effectively as possible. In undertaking this study, the aim will be to gather information regarding past IT projects in...

Australia and Average Length of Hospital Stays

the mid 1990s this was seven days (Duckett, 2002). However, there have also been cuts in the provision of rates for the stays at p...

A Country Hospital Uses Cross Training

the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those nurses ...

New Budget Devising

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

Redesigning a Major Hospital

Application Analysis The case suggests that Frelick implemented a participatory management style when developing a new vision sta...

Analysis Small Private Hospital

personnel belong to the other union. Impact of factors: economics, political, legal, demographics, etc. The factors identified ...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Hospital Rapid Response Team Implementation

been as long as 8 hours prior to dying (IHI, Getting, 2005). Had additional services been provided, the patient would not have die...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Acme Hospital Project Plan Forecast

As scheduled, the project will begin on June 27, 2006 and end on August 10, 2006, for a duration of five weeks. No more than...

Rapid Response Team Establishment and Change Process

This is the list of alternative solutions to address the identified problem. For example, training and education will be needed in...

Review of Lethal Dose by Steven Snodgrass

cringes with the thought that the technological advancement of bioethics has rendered an offshoot as unsavory as euthanasia wards....

Nursing Professional Development Plan

This research paper describes the professional development plan of a nursing manager who is about to assume the position of Direct...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

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...