Introduction In Health care, quality and utilization management have been forced into the spotlight by an insatiable demand for technologically advancing services, a legal system that compels physician to order unnecessary services, and the costs that are soaring higher than ever. The inconsistent use, overuse, misuse or even under used healthcare services has created inefficiencies and value concerns that demand oversight to ensure the best care is received while utilizing resources in the most
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Medical errors have and continue to be an enormous problem in health care. Patients die from the wrong drug or wrong dosage, or perhaps an infection that could have been prevent with better hygiene practices. More attention was placed on the issue of medical errors in 2000 when the Institute of Medicine made available the well-known report titled “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System”. The report documented evidence of an estimated 44,000 people and as many as 98,000 people dying in hospitals
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more focused on patient outcomes and nursing theories. Receiving more theoretical training they are better prepared for management. Also multiple studies show that due to their assessing, critical thinking, communication, leadership, case management, health promotion and their ability to practice across a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings the BSN trained RN has a lower mortality rate and better survival rates for patient resuscitation. (AACN Fact Sheet 2011) At the University of Pennsylvania
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Statistical Thinking in Health Care Introduction: The case study The case study presented here is about the problems in the prescription filling at an HMO’s pharmacy. I have reviewed and analyzed the case, identified problems and suggested improvements solution and strategies for preventing future filling errors. Medication errors are a leading cause of mortality in the United States (Kohn, Corrigan, and Donaldson, 2000). Dispensing errors account for ~21% of all medication errors (Santell, Hicks
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external insurance payers. The underlying assumption underpinning the introduction of IT in healthcare is that, improvements in information flow will eventually translate into improved quality of care (Mort M, 2009).The US Healthcare system is slowly moving toward Electronic Health Records. As mandated by the government all healthcare establishments need to be complaint by 2014 as per this report ( ref).In IT's infancy, healthcare organizations used it for limited payroll and accounting functions. Today
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The Department of Veterans Affairs and the stigma of patient’s mistreatment Rafael A. Vazquez Texas Tech University Clinical Practice Management The Department of Veterans Affairs is the biggest healthcare system in the United States, and serves in many ways to veterans of all branches of our armed forces and the VA main function is to provide healthcare, primary long care instead of acute care in each VA facility around our nation and in some countries around the globe. The VA has other
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Change and Culture Case Study I Mergers occur almost every day in the business world for one reason or another. In health care two or more facilities may merge because of lack of staff, budget cuts, or poor administration that causes pending closures of one or more facilities. When mergers of two healthcare facilities occur, top line management and administration are normally always the first to get the axe from the healthcare facility that needed the bailout. This leaves middle management
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Caused By Medical Errors and What Solutions Can Decrease Them? Health Service Systems – HSM541 June 20 2015 Background Medical errors kill at least 44,000 people and perhaps as many as 98,000 people per year. Or do they kill over 180,000 per year? Maybe even 440,000 people killed by medical errors? Allen (2013) In 1999 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report titled “To Err Is Human: Building A Safer Health System” that leveled the healthcare community. They reported that according
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Otiz v. St. Peter's Case Study Joyce Alston Grand Canyon University: HTL-520 Legal Issues with Physicians December 3, 2014 Tafford Oltz was a nurse anesthetist who brought an antitrust action against physician anesthesiologists and the St. Peter’s Community Hospital. This case study involved the violation of antitrust laws deriving from other anesthesiologist in the hospital who not accepted having to compete with Oltz because he was said to have charged rates that were lower and the majority
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Applying Theory to a Practice Problem: Part 1: Introduction and Problem of Practice Grand Canyon University Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice NUR-502 Jennifer Wood, BSN, MSN, PhD. January 1, 2015 Applying Theory to a Practice Problem: Part 1: Introduction and Problem of Practice Theory serves as the foundation for understanding the essence of nursing and it gives the nurse the opportunity to understand the reason for the occurrence of an event (McEwen & Willis, 2014
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