* * Accountability in Health Care * Erika Denton * August 31‚ 2011 * HCS/475 Instructor David R. Campbell * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Accountability * Accountability in health care is important for management and legal reasons. There are different areas of accountability professional competence‚ legal and ethical conduct‚ and financial performance‚ adequacy of access‚ public health promotion‚ and community benefit
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maximized quality of care. Answer | A. | Clinical practice guidelines are implemented | | B. | Interpersonal aspects of caregiving are emphasized | | C. | Processes are improved | | D. | Desired outcomes are achieved | 2 points Question 3 People _____ years of age and older are generally categorized as elderly. Answer | A. | 65 | | B. | 80 | | C. | 70 | | D. | 55 | 2 points Question 4 Example of an intramural service. Answer | A. | Respite care | | B. | Assistive
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-02 Reflection Paper 10 /8/2010 Much debate has been put forth in public and private about the importance of confidentiality in the health care systems and how to protect and prevent it from landing in the wrong hands. Many patients and clients does not feel like their medical health and conditions are been kept safe in their health providers care. So many security bleach has happen in numerous hospital across the country that has put patients‚ workers and families at risk due to lack
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Demographic population change Dana Ennis HCS/490 April 15‚ 2013 Iris Boyd Demographic population change The population is constantly aging. The population will continue to increase over time because of elderly who have retired‚ have illnesses and disabilities. Some of the aging population will need long-term care‚ medical treatment‚ and in home care because of their medical conditions. Some
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Sociology March 8‚ 2016 Health and Medicine Society experiences health and wellness in many different perspectives. Sociologically speaking‚ there are two major theoretical aspects to healthcare. Functionalism demonstrates illness as an inhibitor on society’s functions. Conflict theory describes issues within the healthcare system‚ rather than focusing on individual illness affecting society. All in all‚ both approaches share the same ideology on the source of overall health. These two perspectives
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Health Care in growing within their technological field every day. They are continuously coming out with new things that can help improve the world of health care as we know it. One of those things that they have come up with is online health care clinics. Online health care clinics are clinics that you can go to from anywhere where you have internet access‚ most people use it from home or by phone‚ but you can also use it while you are traveling as well. You can use these services day or night‚
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average amount an employee had to contribute for family coverage jumped from $935 to $1778. In 1990‚ American companies spent $177 billion on health benefits for workers and their dependents; that number rose to $252 billion by 1996‚ or more than double the rate of inflation. Among the cost drivers: an aging population the number of senior citizens who need health benefits is increasing dramatically every year; medical technology advances which decreased the death rate; new drugs expensive and effective
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Clinical guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patients in making decisions about appropriate health care for specific circumstances (Reames‚ Krell‚ Ponto‚ & Wong‚ 2013). Healthcare providers rely on guidelines to implement evidence-based practice protocols. The process of developing protocols requires an interprofessional collaborative team which includes hospital administration working with and supporting physicians‚ nurses‚ patient advocates and other staff
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because care workers would be helping the person to try and recollect their memories if they can. The self-esteem of an individual who is having difficulties in hearing‚ seeing‚ tasting‚ smelling and so on can be affected because they do not have all the senses that they require. This would affect them because if they do not have a full sense of vision‚ they cannot have the opportunity to see things that other people get to see because of getting older. That would massively have an impact in their
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Negligence is the breech of an obligation or duty to act with care‚ or failure to act as a reasonable or prudent person under certain circumstances. Actual loss or harm must occur in order for negligence to be considered. If loss or harm has occurred as a result of negligence‚ the act is considered a tort‚ and damages may be recovered ( money or form of compensation awarded by law as the result of the negligent action). Torts are willful or unintentional wrong doings committed by one individual
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