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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"United States. healthcare system"”.
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BALANCING COST, HEALTHCARE QUALITY, AND ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN PREGNANCY, LABOR AND DELIVERY
… and gynecology as a specialty within the United States healthcare system. Technological advances in medicine have contributed to soaring costs within the field of obstetrics and prenatal care. These rising costs of American births have led to patient concerns over costs of pregnancy, …
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Empowering Health Care Professionals: An Interprofessional Education Model Implementation And Evaluation Using Mentorship And Teamstepps Methodology
… (IOM) as the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States healthcare system. Effective communication across healthcare disciplines is critical to ensure patient safety, care quality, and operational efficiency. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement an …
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Hispanic cultural considerations in acute stroke care
… make up one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, and this traditionally underrepresented group faces medical and health disparities that make their disease burden disproportionally high. For stroke, this burden presents as increased incidence and increase negative outcomes. This …
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Testbed Implementation for the Development of a New Technology to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea
… with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) cost the United States healthcare system USD 12.4 billion, while the 23.5 million people suffering from OSA undiagnosed extracted costs of USD 149.6 billion from comorbidities, degraded mental health, motor vehicle and workplace accidents, and lost …
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Antiquated paperwork processes in hospitals: the problems and solutions with health information technology systems
BACKGROUND. The United States healthcare system is one of the most expensive in the world, equaling approximately one trillion dollars. However, the quality of healthcare is low, as indicated by mortality rates, prevalence of diseases, rates of readmission to hospitals, dissatisfaction rates, and …
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LEARNING AND OVERLAPS IN QUEUES
… worldwide. As it is cur- rently spreading in the United States, policy makers, public health officials and citizens are racing to understand the impact of this virus on the United States healthcare system. They fear a rapid influx of patients overwhelming the health- care system and leading to …
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Lived Experience: East African Somali Speaking Women Accessing the U.S. Healthcare System
Access to prenatal healthcare for East African Somali Speaking Women (EASSW) who are immigrants to the U.S. has been dependent on the availability of a systematic healthcare treatment model. The purpose of this study was to explore EASSW's lived experiences in accessing prenatal healthcare services …
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Social Determinants of Health Theory: Policy Entry Points for Healthcare Providers
… thesis examines a shifting paradigm in the U.S. healthcare system that will re-define the role that the healthcare provider plays in the production of health. It does this by first acknowledging two differing economic theories on the production of health: Human Capital Theory and Social …