It is not unreasonable for a patient to expect particular services from their healthcare providers. What services should be considered reasonable and which fall under the context of unreasonable? Should the specialist‚ your family physician referred you to‚ have access to your past medical history? What happens when you are traveling and have to make a trip to the emergency room‚ will your physician at home get all the information from that visit or will the ER physician have access to your medical
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Kevin Cao Professor McQueeney English Composition 1 24 October 2012 Annotated Bibliography In the beginning of her essay Organ Sales Will Save Lives‚ Joanna Mackay says that there are thousands of people that are in need of kidneys and thousands that are willing to sell their kidneys. So what’s stopping these people from getting the kidneys? We are. Our government has prohibited the sale of human organs. The government should not ban this. In fact‚ they should actually regulate it. People’s
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Integrated Worker This assignment will define and analyse the need for a chosen service improvement within the pathway of mental health‚ as well as evaluating the suggested service. Demonstrating how this service can inform and benefit integrated practice‚ discussing the ways in which the agency’s statutory obligations and responsibilities impact on both individual and group decision making. The chosen service improvement for this assignment is the introduction of a mental health nurse into primary care
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the north side of Pensacola‚ Florida. It is associated with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)‚ and “the West Florida Healthcare campus includes the all private room acute care hospital‚ the area’s only comprehensive physical rehabilitation hospital‚ and a mental health facility” (West Florida Hospital‚ 2010). When looking at the decision to invest heavily into total quality management (TQM)‚ you must look at its history and hospital statistics of the Pensacola area. In 1992‚ there was intense
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Barbara M. Cook HCA 375: Continuous Quality Monitoring & Accreditation Illegible Physicians Handwriting Jacqueline McClure August 31‚ 2009 Introduction Illegible handwriting and transcription errors are responsible for as much as 61 percent of medication errors in hospitals. A simple mistake such as putting the decimal point in the wrong place can have serious consequences causing a patient ’s dosage to be 10 times the recommended amount. This is a serious problem. Bad handwriting
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safety and the errors occurring every day in medical facilities across the country. Patient safety as defined by the Institute of Medicine is simply stated as having “freedom from accidental injury” (ahrq.gov). Patient safety is now considered a healthcare discipline concerned with reporting‚ preventing and analyzing adverse events in an effort to reduce or eliminate errors leading to undesirable patient outcomes. Some of the most common medical errors affecting patient safety are wrong site surgery
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Applying the background and Methodology of the research process HCS/465 Dr. Chad Moretz Carolyn M. Hughes November 11‚ 2013 Background and Methodology in the research process In my chosen annotated bibliography‚ there will be information addressing these specific issues into the background and the methodologies used to have a better awareness
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Introduction Improving the quality of care and patient safety is the top priority of every hospital. Strategies and interventions are implemented often to improve quality and safety in the hospital settings. One approach is clinical risk management‚ it evaluates system failures and identifies what places patients at risk of harm and takes action to prevent or control such. Evaluating the processes in place allow for improvement continuance. Unfortunately‚ healthcare facilities still struggle
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A White Paper on Strategic BPO in the US Healthcare Industry The Current Healthcare Environment The healthcare environment today faces challenges that it has never seen before. The industry is under attack from every possible direction from cost containment‚ HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act) compliance‚ lack of stability‚ to an uncertain future. After trying various managed care techniques and concepts the
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drivers‚ clinical quality factors‚ and marketing both internally and externally Examine strategic financial management concepts‚ the effects of supply and demand on the health care organization and how managers use contemporary financing practices in conjunction with the strategic plan. Examine and compare strategic plans of various types of organizations as a means to understand the need for change and diversity Bisognano‚ M. (2008). Leadership’s role in execution. Healthcare Executive‚ 23(2)
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