Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) provide opportunities for clinicians to use established guidelines to improve the quality of care that they provide. EBM is the intentional use of established best practices to determine the best course of treatment for a patient (Hughes‚ 2011; Timmermans & Mauck‚ 2005). These guidelines are determined by a committee of experts who analyze research to determine the best methods (including benefits and risks)‚ such as “how and when
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Introduction According to Johnson and Raterink (2009)‚ Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a major global chronic health issue. Though‚ it is found that the condition is largely preventable as many of the risk factors for developing the disease such as excess weight‚ poor diet‚ inactivity‚ smoking and excessive alcohol consumption‚ are modifiable behaviours (Australian Bureau of Statistics‚ 2011). A client newly diagnosed with Type 2 DM may be unaware that the illness can be effectively self-managed
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Why do so many IT Projects fail in the US? Project teams fail to deliver IT projects due to having limited knowledge on the technology‚ which inhibits proper project planning. Technical incompetence plus a lack of user input‚ leads to inadequate project requirements and specifications. Additionally‚ by not providing the right training or hiring project teams with the right experience‚ failure rates of projects will continue to be high. As such‚ the research of this paper will provide a comprehensive
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In today’s job market‚ project management is becoming a major practice in today’s work force. In this paper‚ I will describe what a project is and its life cycle using examples of a project I am currently working on. Then‚ describe how this project assists our organizations to accomplish our company goals and the positive and negatives of the Oracle project at Diebold‚ Incorporated. Let’s start by looking at what is a project. A project is a complex‚ unique one-time effort that is limited by
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Assessment Based Instruction Assessment based instruction is instruction that evolves from assessment to assessment. The assessment dictates the instruction‚ instead of the instruction dictating the assessment. In this paper the following is discussed: key components of assessment-based instruction‚ how assessment has shaped instruction in the last 20 years‚ how assessment improves instruction and learning‚ and the challenges of using assessments in a GED Program. Key Components of Assessment-based Instruction
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Research- Based Intervention on Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder Erica Mariscal Vigil PSYCH 650 Dr. Harry Beaman 05/25/15 Research- Based Intervention on Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder According to Butcher‚ Mineka‚ and Hooley (2013)‚ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)‚ is a “disorder that occurs following an extreme traumatic event‚ in which a person re-experiences the event‚ avoids reminders of the trauma‚ and exhibits persistent increased arousal”. An example may be‚ a person who observed or
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Compare scientific or medical practices that seek to establish truth through evidence in two different readings. How do participants define “success” and what kinds of challenges do they face in making sure their practices are successful? Do experiments or demonstrations mean different things for practitioners and their audiences? In particular‚ you might focus comparisons involving Lewis’s “Between Public Assertion and Private Doubt‚” Collins’s “Public Experiments and Displays of Virtuosity‚” and
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Diabetes Name: Institution: Diabetes An intervention generally describes a combination of strategies and set of activities that are aimed at improving the health status of an individual or an entire priority population. Interventions with multiple strategies are the bet equips to sensitizing a target population and in so doing improvement of the status of that select group. With regard to the diabetes intervention‚ the select group is the geographical setup of Hawaii and specifically the priority
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Community Project Paper Local and Community Development Policy A national Local and Community Development Policy should be developed‚ by doing so this should lock out all other priorities involved. The framework for a cross government approach at the local level city or county should incorporate an all-state funded for the development of the community intervention. This is a five year plan that is prepared for coinciding with the electoral cycle of the government
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or Latinos. Within this group‚ there are numerous health disparities which affects their quality of life; however‚ type II diabetes is becoming a detrimental disease altering the Hispanic community. Diabetes is a nationwide disease that bears on all age groups and minorities‚ but the burden of this health problem and its consequences impacts the Hispanics. “Type II diabetes affects Hispanic populations disproportionately and is the fifth leading cause of death for Hispanic people in the United
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