participants were being identified and documented as malnourished. To evaluate the impact of poor documentation on financial reimbursement to the hospital. Subjects: Three hundred and twenty-four inpatients from a total of 690 randomly selected patients consented to participate in the study. Design and setting: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) was used to assess the nutritional status of inpatients. There were 1906 patients were admitted over a three-month period. Of these‚ 1860 were eligible and
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Issues/BackgroundShouldice Hospital limited was started in 1940 by Dr. Earle Shouldice for treating Hernia. The method of surgery adopted by Shouldice Hospital was unique in a sense that it introduced the concept of flow shop in carrying out surgeries alongwith simplicity in surgery. Because of this uniqueness and simplicity‚ the demand for surgeries at Shouldice increased and Shouldice has reached a point where it has to increase its capacity to reduce the wait times being faced by the patients
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the Waco VA Hospital By expanding the residency program already in place‚ the amount of patients seen could well cover the amount of people needing care. Cost The addition of 5 faculty would incur an additional $900‚000 for salary. However‚ residents are only paid around $65‚000 and work upwards of 80 hours a week. So the total cost for the addition of 50 residents would be around $3.25 million‚ however Medicare appropriates funds to help educate residents. In total‚ however‚ the cost per resident
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Integrative case: What went wrong at university hospital? In this memo‚ I would like to clarify the causes of the failure of the training program in the hospital and propose the new way of the training that could be more useful for both senior managers and the employees. According to the failed implementation of the training in the use of new equipment and software‚ First of all‚ one of the causes of the failure is the absence of survey need assessment of employees. The hospital’s senior management
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Civil War Hospitals The methods used and conditions of hospitals during the Civil War are considered barbaric and brutal in comparison to modern medicine. According to Frank Vandiver in his book 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the Civil War‚ “the wounded on both sides [of the Civil War] tried to stay out of hospitals” (30). Many soldiers lost their lives due to the rampant disease‚ conditions‚ and procedures employed by the hospitals. In a statistic by Ina Dixon in an article from Civilwar
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Rory Boyan Writing 1 04/19/02 Considering all the treatment methods used at Mclean Hospital‚ harsh physical treatments were rarely productive. Methods such as seclusion‚ ice-baths‚ Electro-shock therapy‚ and even the Hospitals atmosphere itself can make one wonder how anyone came out of there better than they went in. It seems odd that people teetering on the edge of sanity were subjected to such horrible treatments. Although such treatments sometimes worked‚ it in no way outweighs the
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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF DAMS ON THE ENVIRONMENT The human being has been struggling in order to shape the ecosphere in a man- ner he wants since the first day. The period in which this struggle was observed most intensively was the period covering the transition from a migrant and primitive hunter society to a resident life and fa rming. The most deep-seated environmental modification against the nature that had been realized in the history of the human being has started at this time. Even
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Topic: Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on the world today. The term globalization is the process of transformation of local phenomena into global ones. It is when different countries start to connect together as a whole‚ when people around the world are more linked to each other than ever before‚ when information and money flow more speedily and when goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly obtainable in all parts of the world. And it has
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both food cops and cash crops. It is through the development of agriculture the human beings started organized way of living. The development of agriculture led to the development of civilized life of man. The agricultural sector is important in all the aspect of human life because it provides food materials and raw materials to industries. So the development of agriculture stands as the back bone to the development of a country and the development of standard of living of the people in the country
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This case study examines the findings for a patient admitted to Littleton Hospital in February 2016. This patient was initially radiographed on February 8th and again on February10th‚ 2016‚ when the radiology department received orders for a portable chest x-ray for an 82-year-old patient in the ICU. Two days prior‚ she had received a chest x-ray‚ post-thoracentesis. At that time‚ the radiologist‚ Dr. Orlin Hopper noted “a moderate right-sided pneumothorax” (2016). Upon review of the second set of
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