Abstract Clinical decision-support systems (CDSS) apply best-known medical knowledge to patient data for the purpose of generating case-specific decision-support advice. CDSS forms the cornerstone of health informatics research and practice. It is an embedded concept in almost all major clinical information systems and plays an instrumental role in helping health care achieve its ultimate goal: providing high quality patient care while‚ at the same time‚ assuring patient safety and reducing
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disease had very little chance of survival and were all too often subjected to excruciating and brutal breast augmentation surgeries‚ even when much of the time they were already terminal and the surgery made no difference at all. Robert Shadle and James S. Olson’s story about our ill fated heroin Nabby Smith recants a particularly horrifying fight with this villain of a disease at a time when medical knowledge was limited‚ and Breast Cancer posed an imminent threat to the lives of otherwise healthy middle
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meets Miriam. Miriam then begins to dramatically change Mrs. Miller’s life. Miriam’s appearance is mysterious and appears in Mrs. Miller’s dreams. She also seems to have a connection to an old man Mrs. Miller sees on the street. Miriam is an angel of death. To start‚ Miriam’s façade gives her a supernatural and ominous look. At the beginning of the story‚ Mrs. Miller is waiting in line for a movie. She then notices Miriam and is mystified by her physical features. Capote writes‚ “Her hair was the longest
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Trophy and the Bennett and Mitchell Trophy in the USA. Air racing stimulated developments in aircraft design‚ helping in the evolution of the Spitfire fighter for instance. Women also played a leading role in air racing in the 1920s and 1930s with their own competitions. While there are still air races they do not attract the public attention they did in the early years of aviation. Pioneering and endurance flights‚ where new records and routes were established. Crowds always gathered to see the beginning
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we try to determine the fairness of our system by discussing the important of one of many controversies issue which are dividing us apart. We want to come up with a unite decision that will benefit all of us. Capital punishment today is still one of the most difficult topics which had not yet been resolved. John K. Cochran and Beth A. Sanders are the authors of The Gender Gap in Death Penalty Support: An Exploratory Study article demonstrate how we deal with the capital punishment issue by providing
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react to the idea that someone in your family was dying? Would you sit by them until the end? What about your view on death itself? Do you think that there is some sort of afterlife‚ where your spirit outlives your body but you continue to live? Perhaps you simply believe that you are trapped in an eternal slumber. There are many different views on the concept of death‚ as well as the behavior that should be reflected upon when you’re facing death‚ as with a family member. Though there may be countless
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and develop systems that promote communication The aim of this chapter is to assess the level of knowledge‚ understanding and skills required to develop communication systems for meeting individual outcomes and promoting partnership working. The chapter explores the challenges and barriers to communication and the importance of effective management of information. By the end of this chapter you will: 1 Be able to address the range of communication requirements in your own role 2 Be able to improve
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conditions and disabilities can affect an individual’s emotional and physical wellbeing. They may require extra support and encouragement with any activities they undertake‚ which could be a combination of both mental and physical disabilities. They will also need empathy and support with any emotional needs they may have. Multiple conditions usually have additional impacts on individuals’ wellbeing and quality of life. A person with arthritis only can live at home with minimum help of a carer but
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E.‚ Barr‚ N.‚ (2015)‚ stated that some of the benefits of EHR system is that as a documentation tool it serves in the provision of data which are useful in enhancing patient safety‚ evaluating care quality‚ maximizing efficiency‚ and measuring staffing needs. An effective EHR system serves to facilitate patient safety and quality improvement by utilizing checklists‚ alerts‚ and predictive tools. In additional‚ embedded in the systems are clinical guidelines that promote standardized of practice that
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Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is an approach to supporting the people with challenging or problem behavior that combines both a set of values with a set of behavioral principals that we know to be effective. In general‚ positive behavior support approaches problems in multi ways such as what happens before the behavior‚ what’s the context of the behavior in terms of time‚ place‚ and what’s quality of the of the person. Our traditional approach to the discipline has been to stop behavior problems
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