Practice guidelines can have adverse implications for clinicians, especially if they are rigidly enforced by payers, managers, or malpractice courts. They can have adverse policy implications for society if they increase the costs of care, decrease equity, or divert resources from more effective health care interventions. Evidence-based medicine (EBM), Through its Agency for Healthcare Research […]
United States has continually to become more diverse demographically, with racial and ethnic minorities, predictable to become most of the U.S. population by 2042. A culturally competent system of care acknowledges and incorporates–at all levels–the importance of culture and ethics, the assessment of cross-cultural relations, vigilance towards the dynamics that result from cultural differences, […]
According to Oregon Health & Science University’s description on origin of health development (n.d.), “David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., in 1989, first reported the relationship between birth weight and death rates from coronary heart disease in both men and women in Hertfordshire, UK.” The resulted research proved that amongst adults with a birth weight ranging […]
Nejad, S. B., Allegranzi, B., Syed, S. B., Ellis, B., & Pittet, D. (2011). Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bulletin Of The World Health Organization, 89(10), 757-765. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.088179 The article by Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet (2011) aimed at assessing the epidemiological approach of healthcare related infection in Africa. Three best, scholarly […]
Physicians who take a patient-centered orientation, attitude are more likely to treat patients like close associates and assist them in making informed choices among several options. This technique has been linked with a range of helpful outcomes, such as keen patient satisfaction, better adherence, and improved health outcomes. In terms of legislative health policy implementation, […]
As many people said, addressing the quality of care in today’s era of health reform is neither a top-down nor bottom-up method. This is because successful implementation of any health care reform law will be contingent on the ability of all partaking parties ( ie. federal government, the states, health care payers, hospitals, […]
Population health is an important concept of describing the health outcomes of a group of people in each area of locality (Improving Population Health, n.d.). The concept is equally significant in assessing the Canadian health outcomes within different communities, and subgroups of individuals. There are many factors that can affect equal distribution of health within […]
Healthcare professionals should warn patients of the adverse effects of surgery, the used of medical equipment, prescription drugs and other related dangers that will harm and affect the functionality of the patient. Healthcare related duty to warn can be applied to manufacturers and producers of food and medicine products and/or medical equipment, with negative effects […]
The confidence on the termination factor in on-going nursing evaluation of patient condition is two folds. Failure to follow applicable nursing procedures and protocols, which could result in patient injuries and possible institutional liability. Failure to also follow hospital policies and procedures could result in a successful lawsuit against the hospital facility, in care of […]
Falsification of medical records is a felony. If you falsify a client’s records, the court will require you to give an explanation for this offense. When found guilty of this offense by deliberately altering or falsifying the records, the court will consequently grant punitive damages. The medical and legal dangers for failing to record information […]