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In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
disseminated across electronic media can make it comparatively easy for unauthorised personnel to access such data. Health care wo...
low and they stopped taking Medicare patients (Gale, 1999). While there was a campaign for higher subsidies, nothing really happen...
Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...
to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...
In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...
figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...
2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...
2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...
from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...
managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...
In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...
payment has yet to be received. Given this, IBNR can end up being a problem for hospitals and/or health care organizations...
a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...
In six pages this paper discusses problems including ethics that are confronting managed care workers and what is being proposed t...
Presents four cast studies concerning ethics and family/marriage therapy. Topics involve religion, culture, technology and managed...
facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...
implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...
despite the low response rate, that the sample was representative of the study, as the sample represented tended to encompass all ...
of those hospitals in a managed care contract consider joint billing to be important. Only nine percent place importance on group...
In twelve pages this paper defines HMOs, considers how treatments are funded, decision making, and examines various ethical issues...
because he feels that providing them with samples, albeit illegally, is better than letting this impromptu clinic continue. This p...
If we look to Aristotle, Socrates and Plato there is an agreement that it is the good of the many that is important, therefore whe...