ambiguous‚ unfamiliar‚ and look-alike abbreviations and acronyms leading to misinterpretation and medical errors. The patient’s safety is a common goal in every healthcare institution. One of the major issues in a patient safety is an error that can be caused by an abbreviation. The most common is medication errors. One of the most common but preventable causes of medication errors is the use of ambiguous medical notations. Some abbreviations‚ symbols‚ and dose designations are frequently misinterpreted
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I. System Name: MEDIKSYS II. Field Industry: Medical Industry (Clinic/Hospital) III. Target Company: Clinica Terencio and Hospital A. Business Address: 185 J. P. Rizal Street‚ Maypajo‚ Caloocan City‚ 1400‚ Metro Manila B. Contact person: Emmanuel Terencio‚ M.D.‚ FPAFP‚ DFM C. Contact number: (02) 287-21-86 / (02) 288-24-65 IV. System Overview Mediksys is a clinic management system designed to help the clinica terencio and hospital in managing their patient record and accommodating during
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Persuasive Speech Subject: Animal Testing for Medical Purposes Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that animal testing is only ok if it is used for medical purposes only. Outline I. Introduction: A. Attention-getting device: Do you know anyone that has or had cancer? Or some other deadly disease? These diseases could be cured with a little more research and experimenting. How about painkillers? Have any of you had surgery and been under anesthesia? B. Preview: Those
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Jennifer Laird English 1101 Medical Marijuana In “Medical Marijuana Should Be Legal”‚ by Daniel J. Pfeifer‚ the author states what he thinks justifies medical marijuana being legal. I disagree with that completely‚ because medical marijuana has no proven medicinal values to make it a legal form of medication. The article states that‚ “marijuana use‚ especially by terminally ill patients‚ mitigates their suffering from unnecessary chronic and unbearable pain that persists until death.” Marijuana
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possible I spend a large amount of my time learning about medical specialties and careers. I took two medical related classes this past school year (my junior year). They were Medical Terminology and Intro to Health Careers. Medical Terminology allowed me to learn more anatomy and pathology; Intro to Health Careers introduced me to some careers I may have never thought about before. Up until this year‚ I had my heart set on going to medical school and becoming a surgeon. After taking health are classes
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Robotic Development The researchers in “New Robot Has Come to Conquer Human Race…With Snacks!” By Aaron Saenz are on the frontier of robot development. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon are developing a robot named SnackBot which goes around offering snacks to people. In the experiment of SnackBot in the workplace the researchers were observing the social interaction of humans and robots as well as the aesthetics. They were determining if it was well received‚ if its height was too small or too
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Ultrasonography‚ commonly called sonography‚ is a diagnostic medical procedure that uses high frequency sound waves (ultrasound) to produce dynamic visual images of organs‚ tissues‚ or blood flow inside the body. This type of procedure is often referred to as a sonogram or ultrasound scan. Sonography can be used to examine many parts of the body‚ such as the abdomen‚ breasts‚ female reproductive system‚ prostate‚ heart‚ and blood vessels. Sonography is increasingly being used in the detection and
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Business Opportunity Management Group #2 Case Summary The case is about Newland Medical Technologies‚ founded by Sarah Foster She found a niche in medical equipment market‚ in the form of a requirement of better Stent in Urology. She developed a product named SRS (Stone removal Stent) after rigorous brainstorming with her friend. The case talks about various barriers faced during the business plan development and its execution by her. Sarah Foster
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4.1Ethics in medical research There is a major concern in public health and medical practice for ethical considerations in the conduct of research on human subjects. Most of the published guidelines on ethics for medical research are primarily concerned with experimental designs and invasive procedures in clinical research; they do not cover many of the issues arising in observational studies often used in public health research. Nonetheless‚ even observational studies are expected to comply and
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characteristics that defines successful medical students is resilience. The journey to medical school is a challenging and enduring one - personally‚ it has been anything but smooth sailing. But‚ to be resilient‚ is to not only bounce back after you have been knocked down but to learn from the mistakes that impeded you the first time. It is I believe that one of the characteristics that defines successful medical students is resilience. The journey to medical school is a challenging and enduring one
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