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Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

Hospital Leaning Center

A 6 page paper about establishing a learning center in a hospital. The dimensions and location of the center is reported, includin...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Right to Die and Government Spending Limitations

This paper presents the argument in nine pages that the government is earmarking too much spending on the preservation of terminal...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

Artificial Nutrition, Hydration, and Ethics

In twelve pages patient ethics are examined in a consideration of issues associated with artificial hydration and nutrition. Twel...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

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 ...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Urinary Catheters - Experiences and Feelings of Patients

in the study had suffered at least one urinary tract infection in the preceding 24 months. Wild (et al, 2010, p309) found an even ...

Access to Care for Underprivileged, ESRD in NC

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Improved Health Care Relationships between Stakeholders

health results from individual action, willpower and sustained efforts, while an eternal locus of control is characterized by beli...

Addressing Issues in the HCAHPS

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

Falls and the Retired Population - An Annotated Bibliography

The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...

Providing Healthcare in an Effective Manner- What Can be Learned from HIV Strategies

To deal with the HIV crisis many lesser and middle income countries had to develop innovative and cost effective strategies to de...

Hysteria and Free Assocation

This paper is based on the book, Pioneers of Psychology by Francher and Rutherford. The paper discuses different issues about free...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...