patients with low health literacy. The patients with low health literacy have poor health outcomes including increased rates of hospitalization and reduced frequency of using preventive services‚ lack of health insurance‚ lack of knowledge about medical conditions and treatment‚ which these leading to increased healthcare costs. They also have problems to report their health status‚ and experience negative psychological effects. 2. Think back to your IPPE and work experiences. What are two interventions
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When I first started to learn the world of medical terms I was completely overwhelmed with the amount of words that didn’t match anything I already knew. It was like I was learning an entire new language that was developed entirely to confuse someone like me; a person who has only spoken‚ read‚ and written in one language her entire life. To add to this confusion‚ I also soon discovered that many words were spelled and pronounced the same even though their definitions were entirely different. When
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Medical errors in the United State healthcare system Nitin samireddy Wilmington University Abstract Medical field in the United States is grandiose of all other fields. The healthcare system in the United States is the most complicated. The country spends one of the highest GDPs on health care‚ but lags behind in patient satisfaction and overall health of the population. Nationally nearly 41‚000 or 1 out of 10 patients harmed every year. Community hospital patients have a much higher
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which made him stabilize. The next day he was seen by the CARDIOLOGIST‚ and was told he had a heart attack due to ARTERIOSCLEROSIS. Three days later he was rushed to the hospital with the same symptoms. The local hospital air lifted him to Duke Medical Center‚ where he was diagnosed with CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE and ANGINA. Once he was at duke‚ he was told he had a major heart attack and was put in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU) for EXTENSIVE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. He was told he would have to go
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“Forbidden” Abbreviations After reading JCAHO “Forbidden” Abbreviations‚ I learned that a newly discovered list of outlawed abbreviations was put into place. This requires all organizations to gather easily mistaken abbreviations‚ acronyms‚ and symbols and ban them. Accuracy is extremely important when writing prescriptions. Without enough attention to detail‚ mistakes can often be made. These simple mistakes can lead to many major problems. I do believe by banning these abbreviations many problems
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What does quality of health care mean to you and your family as consumers of health care? What are your feelings about the recent focus on medical errors in health care? The concept of being a consumer of health care is as foreign to my family and I as being a consumer of family relationships. Mothers are the mother‚ brothers are a brother and health care is as expected to be given to the same degree a parent is expected to feed their children. That being said‚ guide lines and agreements provide
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not at all restricted to literary matters‚ as the general opinion still stands. Various translation theorists (e.g. Kastberg 2007‚ Stolze 2009) have started to highlight the fact that translating pragmatic texts involves much more than handling terminology‚ because‚ in addition to subject-relevant
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Abbreviations‚ Acronyms‚ And Initialisms Any shortened form of a word is an abbreviation‚ for example‚ etc. for etcetera and Oct. for October; but acronyms are special kinds of abbreviations‚ such as ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) and OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)‚ that can be pronounced as words. This makes them a subset of abbreviations. All acronyms are abbreviations‚ but not all abbreviations are acronyms. Initialisms are another type of abbreviation. They are often
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from Chapter Two and Four. In Chapter Two I learned‚ The Medical Terms of the different Anatomical Planes‚ Directions‚ and Body Regions. I learned the individual body systems into the organization and functions of the body as a whole. I learned How to comprehend‚ spell‚ and write medical terms pertaining to the body as a whole so I can communicate and document medical terms accurately and precisely. I learned to recognize and pronounce medical terms pertaining to the body as a whole so that I can communicate
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