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

the west Los Angeles market, this requires an increase of 9% as the hospital currently has a 6% market share. This should be achie...

a dilemma in the United States, a dilemma in the true sense of the word in that there is just no win-win solution. When we conside...

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

which was potentially the first ever schedule of physician charges (Jost, 1988). Today the issue is not as simple with a far more ...

for improving nursing systems. II. Introduction and Background XYZ Hospital is a suburban hospital, serving a regional populati...

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

investment in the software program has a number of benefits as well as some challenges. The development of a system where patient ...

appeal to a large market, or maybe a niche market, depending upon the way that the organization wishes to compete. It will also re...

number of patients at any given time, and as such sometimes experience difficulties with tracking patients and with ensuring that ...

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

Aside from security risks, there are other problems with going wireless - one of which is, believe it or not, interference from te...

obvious. By and large, film cameras have been replaced with consumer grade digital cameras, and more people now take photographs w...

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

The writer looks at a hospital planning on implementing a web chat facility on their corporate web site to increase communication...

indirect through the in-house CCTV systems. Individuals may also change the practices because they are being observed which may sk...

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

organization, as well as to provide a framework for suggesting improvements in the deployment and utilization of such systems. T...

The Maimonides name was adopted in 1996; the facility was named in honor of the Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon. Maimon was a Jewish twelft...

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

isnt being seen - and read - by unauthorized personnel (such as the cleaning crew or perhaps the cleaning crews friends). The like...

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

care. The idea of reducing the costs associated with oxygen while not having a direct impact on staffing levels of quality of care...

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...