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Ill Patients Payment System
1,108 wordsThe rising cost of medical care in the United States has been a concern for quite some time. Beginning in the 1960 s with the advent of Medicare, a system has been needed that will balance cost with services provided within acceptable parameters. In 1982, the US Congress placed a cap on operating expenses for each Medicare case treated in a hospital, as a protective measure to insure adequate payment within reasonable limits. A prospective payment system (PPS) was initiated as a result of the ca...
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Care Financing Health Care
1,117 words... ies to 1, 263. (Edwards, et al, 1994). The DRG developed for use with Medicare has been altered for use with non-Medicare populations. In 1987, the State of New York enacted legislation mandating a PPS for all non-Medicare patients. The State Department of Health was required to assess the appropriateness of HCFA DRGs for a non-Medicare population, including a specific evaluation of the appropriateness for cases involving neonates and patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Whe...
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People And Animals Personality Disorder
1,234 words... ti social. People that are both antisocial and alcoholic are prone to violent behavior. Not every antisocial becomes a criminal. An antisocial person's disorder peaks between the ages of 24 and 44 and After the age of 30 the sociopath fights less and performs less crime but the illness can persist into the ages of between 60 and 70 but after 30 are less likely to be in trouble with the law. In a sociopaths in their thirties will continue to have problems such as unstable relationships, subst...
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Form Of Depression Electroshock Therapy
1,352 words... are often thought to have a connection with depression, when in actuality troubles sleeping is associated with the aging process or a medical condition rather than with depression. Contributing factors include the loss of a spouse or close friends, chronic pain and illness, difficulty with mobility, frustration with memory loss, difficulty adapting to changing circumstances such as moving from a home to a retirement facility, or changes within the family. Depression can also be a sign of a m...
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Hearing Loss Autistic Children
1,270 wordsIn general, autism is the developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, or otherwise sense. Approximately 3 to 5 out of every 10, 000 school aged children have some for of autism, and males with the disorder outnumber females with it by nearly 5 to 1. It is estimated that 1 in every 500 display some autistic characteristics (Williams, xiv). Autism is called a spectrum disorder because there is no one characteristic and it is different in ever...
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Mental Health Professionals Difficult To Understand
1,541 wordsA major part of clinical psychology is the diagnoses and treatment of mental disorders. This can often be difficult and controversial due to the fact that many of the disorders can be confused with others; there aren't always clear guidelines in which to follow. An example of this confusion can be seen in the disorders Neurosis and Psychosis. Neither neurosis nor psychoses appear as major categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III). The main reason for this ...
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Hiv And Aids In African Americans
548 wordsThe unit plan for a HIV/AIDS Peer Education program is targeting African American teenagers who have signed up for the S. A. F. E (Stopping Aids For Everyone) Program. The program is a community health based curriculum designed to increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS transmission in the African American community. The group will range in age between 13 - 17 years of age and will be attending local high schools. Group size will be approximately 20 students. The program would be on Saturdays at 12: ...
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Children With Fas Fas Children
468 wordsWhat is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)? FAS is the leading cause of mental retardation in the U. S. today. FAS affects approximately 1 in every 500 born in North America. Mother's drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy causes FAS. FAS is characterized by: Smaller heads Deformed facial features (small widely spaced eyes, underdeveloped jaw, thin upper lip, and short upturned nose). Abnormal joints and limbs- these include deformities of the small joints of the hands as well as an incomplete ...
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Abusive Parents Dependent Variables
569 wordsTo establish and maintain interlayer reliability, 20 randomly selected subjects were jointly interviewed by the psychiatrist and another interviewer who then independently arrived at diagnoses. Cohen K values for the categories of disorders reported in this study were 0. 77 for affective disorders, 0. 83 for anxiety disorders, and 0. 86 for disruptive behavior disorders. The reliability sample did not contain any individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. All cases identified by their pr...
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People With Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus
706 wordsDiabetes Some people have a disease that requires them to take daily injections of insulin. This disease is called diabetes, and cannot be cured. But, what if a non functioning pancreatic islet cells could be made to produce insulin once again. That would cure diabetes. The possibility has set the diabetes world excited over the past few months ever since researchers at McGill University in Canada and the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) successfully regenerated islet cells in diabetic ham...
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Ill Patients Care Financing
2,269 wordsPage 2 I. Introduction The rising cost of medical care in the United States has been a concern for quite some time. Beginning in the 1960 s with the advent of Medicare, a system has been needed that will balance cost with services provided within acceptable parameters. In 1982, the US Congress placed a cap on operating expenses for each Medicare case treated in a hospital, as a protective measure to insure adequate payment within reasonable limits. A prospective payment system (PPS) was initiate...
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Patient Undergoing Foot Surgery Undergoing Foot Surgery Pain
592 wordsPes Cards Pes cards (clawfoot) refers to a foot with an abnormally high arch and a fixed equine deformity of the forefoot (see Fig. 62 &# 64979; 6). The shortening of the foot and increased pressure produce calluses on the metatarsal area and on the dorsum (bottom) of the foot. Charcot&# 64979; Marie&# 64979; Tooth disease (a peripheral neuromuscular disorder associated with a familial degenerative disorder), diabetes mellitus, and tertiary syphilis are common causes of pes cards. Exercises are ...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
598 wordsPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post traumatic Stress Disorder is a condition from which nearly 10 % of Americans suffer. It, unlike other afflictions, is associated with a wide variety of circumstances. Many war veterans suffer from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. However, a new group of people are quickly emerging as common suffers of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder-sexually abused children. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a prevalent problem associated with children who are victims of sexual ass...
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Personality Disorder Hyperactivity Disorder
1,240 wordsIn the world full of fears, perhaps a worse for the human being should have is that be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-social Personality Disorder or in today s terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure of drug to control it. It has been stated that a solution to this problem would be to let all sociopaths live in colonies together. The...
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