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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"Health and Medical Administration"”.
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An Investigation of Antibiotic Residue in Non-Commercial Beef in Southwest Missouri
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat. A public health fear is that drug-resistant bacteria could develop that are resistant to all known antibiotics and the diseases they cause might be incurable. The CDC policy advises taking antibiotics only when absolutely necessary and only in …
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The Effects of Country-Line Dancing on Cardiorespiratory Endurance, Muscular Strength/Endurance, Flexibility, Agility, and Balance in the Elderly
… aging. Exercise can improve functional fitness and thus quality of life in the elderly. To determine whether country-line dancing (CLD) improves functional fitness in older adults, seventeen subjects ages 59 and above performed six weeks of CLD. A variety of dances were performed for one-hour …
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On-Site Massage Therapy: Advantages For Anxiety Reduction At the Work Place
… of three break activities at the workplace, and a fifteen-minute on-site massage therapy, a fifteen minute progressive muscle relaxation, and a normal fifteen-minute office break. Blood pressure and heart rate were measured pre and post treatment and for the baseline reading for physiological …
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Policy analysis of foreign trials needed for FDA-approved INDs for devices and drugs from 2016 to 2020
<p>Any new drug or medical device requires testing before it can be commercialized. Although there are many paths a product can follow during preclinical testing to bringing it to the market, the need for multinational data is more necessary for drugs in comparison to medical devices. Since drugs …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) led to the largest health insurance expansion in the U.S. since Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in 1965. This dissertation studies the causal effects of the ACA on pharmaceutical prices, demand, and innovation using a …
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Identification of Seventh-day Adventist Health Core Convictions : Alignment with Current Healthcare Practice
… that organizations can sustain their vitality and longevity by preserving their core ideology. The purpose of this study is to define and articulate the core convictions of Seventh-day Adventist healthcare and then investigate how the leaders' and employees' cognitive understandings, behaviors, …
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Identification of symptom domains in ulcerative colitis that occur frequently during flares and are responsive to changes in disease activity
… flares, 2) improves during effective therapy, and 3) resolves during remission. Twenty eight symptom domains were evaluated. Sixty subjects were surveyed, rating each symptom on three criteria with a 100 mm Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Important symptoms were defined a priori as those whose …
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Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and the risk of type 2 diabetes in a population-based cohort study of older Mexican Americans
… of 1789 community-dwelling Mexican American men and women, aged 60-101, in the SALSA study were used. Data for 1,203 participants without diabetes at baseline were evaluated for incident diabetes. Proportional hazard models were used to predict the probability of incident T2D by GGT level.</p> …
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Perceived Leadership Style, Style Flexibility, and Style Effectiveness of Government Hospital Administrators in Thailand
<p>Problem. Many health care organizations have a great need for leaders who can handle the complex mix of health care facilities, legal and patient demands. Currently, hospital administrators of government-operated hospitals in Thailand are selected from physicians. These physicians are not …
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Intuitive Decision Making and Leadership Style Among Healthcare Executives in the United States
… a sample of Fellows in the American College of Healthcare Executives in the United States and then interview selected individuals who scored in the highly intuitive category on the intuition survey to explore how they made intuitive decisions. In the first phase, quantitative research questions …
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Burnout In Radiation Therapy: Examining The Six Leading Influences
… are highlighting the dangers of burnout amongst healthcare workers, including radiation therapists. Since burnout is associated with an increase in medical errors (Sanchez-Reilly, 2013), it affects both the well-being of the patient and patient satisfaction scores, which are important to a …
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A NORMATIVE ETHICS RIGHTS-BALANCING LENS: UNDERSTANDING GRATEFUL PATIENT FUNDRAISING PRACTICES VIA INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN INTERVIEWS
… scrutiny amid increasing United States (U.S.) healthcare financial pressures. However, there is a paucity of scholarship applying theoretical frameworks to better understand the ethical complexities of this topic. Grateful patient fundraising (GPFR), refers to the professional practices and …
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Demographic profiles of clinical research participants in FDA-approved NMEs
<p>Drug development is a rigorous and expensive process that takes between 10 and15 years. Recruitment and retention of human subjects in clinical trials is challenging. This study collected the demographics of trial participant in trials for New Molecular Entities (NMEs) approved by the U.S. Food …
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Transforming a Primary Care Practice into a Patient Centered Medical Home
<p>Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition is a process and a road map to improving quality of and access to care. Extant studies have shown that adoption of the PCMH model of care has lowered healthcare expenditure by 15-20% (Nielsen, Langner, Zema, Hacker, & Grundy, 2012). In an effort …
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Examining The Job Satisfaction Of Direct Care Workers During Covid-19: A Quantitative Descriptive Study
… Workers (DCWs) who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020-December 2021 in the United States. This was done not to determine cause and effect between the pandemic and job satisfaction of DCWs: the pandemic was simply used as a timeframe. A REDCap survey was posted to two DCWs groups …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Adventist Hospital Board Chair Leadership Behaviors and Effectiveness
<p>Problem and Purpose. There is a lack of empirical research regarding the leadership behaviors that predict an effective community hospital board chair. Researchers indicate that an effective organization normally has a well-led board. However, the chair role has been largely neglected in the …
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