The Effect of Computerizing Physician Orders to Prevent Medication Errors Background: Medication errors at the time of hospital admissions and discharges are common and can lead to preventable errors. The objection of this paper is to show how computerizing physician orders can help alleviate that problem and reduce it remarkably. Problem: The pt. was given the wrong dosage of 2 weeks supply of medication. Solution: Computerizing Physician Order Entry Proposed Improvement Plan: I choose this cause because it happen so often at my facility that pts.
This evidences support my research of other method of preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Lifestyle-Alzheimer's Links. (2004). Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, 22(7), 3. The author of this article is Anonymous. This article discussed the potential of niacin being a form of preventing or delays Alzheimer’s disease. The article provides research of testing done on patient using niacin.
State the null hypothesis for the Baird and Sands (2004) study that focuses on the effect of the GI with PMR treatment on patients’ mobility level. Should the null hypothesis be rejected for the difference between the two groups in change in mobility scores over 12 weeks? Provide a rationale for your answer. The null hypothesis is that the woman receiving guided imagery show no greater improvement in their pain scores than the control group after 12 weeks. The study results indicated significant improvement in mobility scores of women who received treatment (F(1, 22)= 9.619, p = 0.005).
She measured the NK cell activity to see how the immune system was effected and found that the NK cell activity had dropped significantly in the second blood sample that had been taken shows that stress had caused to lower the efficiency of the immune system and made the students were vulnerable to stress-related illnesses. Also Marucha et al. conducted a study involving a group of students. Marucha inflicted a punch-biopsy 3 days before an exam and found that the wound took 40% longer to heal when the wound was inflicted during the exam period. Also if a acute stressors could have such a negative impact on the immune system on chronic stressors where also suspected to have a similar effect.
How do you feel this affected the interventions taken/not taken with this patient? JNC-7: Significant Changes * High diastolic BP (DBP) is no longer considered to be more dangerous than high systolic BP (SBP) * What is the difference between systole and diastole? * Studies have shown that elevated SBP is strongly associated with heart failure, stroke, and renal failure * Explain how an increase in systolic could affect the heart muscle and vessels. How is this different than an elevated diastolic blood pressure? * For those older than age 50, SBP is a more important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) than DBP * Identify other risk factors for CVD.
Also, Amgen encouraged doctors to switch Medicare and Medicaid patients to Aranesp, then bill Medicare and Medicaid for Aranesp. These practices went on while Aranesp was available to public healthcare plans for free. Amgen illegally offered doctors cash, exotic vacations, and performance-based rebates to engage in these fraudulent activities to increase sales. (Admin, n.d.) Shawn O’Brien was a senior project manager who was hired to improve the company compliance process with FDA reporting. O’Brien determined the inconsistency and lack of reporting complaints about the drug to the FDA.
Dempsey (2008) and Barker et al. (2010) both modified internationally known tools to fit their specific population in their research. Both of these authors noted that while the adaptation of their fall risk tools to their specific regions increased specificity, it could affect the results on predicting falls in different populations. This reason prevents recommending either tool for adoption in all hospital settings to improve fall risk identification and prevention. The Conley Scale and Hendrich Model were not changed for demographics by Lovallo et al.
Major depression whether primary or secondary to disease process can lead to death. The UCLA Department of Medicine states “Depression disorders cause a substantial amount of under recognized morbidity and mortality in primary care patients.”(Silverman, (2004). Proper screening and treatment can produce better outcomes for soldiers, dependants, and adults eighteen and older. With the implementation of algorithms this plan will improve screening and treatment for major depression. (Mulligan, 2005).No nurse directed research was found.
EMR hospitals did not show a difference in the mix of patient safety events compared to those hospitals without EMRs. Although the spending for each patient safety event did seem to be lower in the EMR hospitals, for all types of events, which showed the average spending on a patient safety event was $55,810 under EMRs,compared to $60,093 without EMRs. As a whole in this article EMRs did keep costs down and helped make response time to medical errors more rapid. • How has this medical technology affected the health care
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 1, February 2005 ( C 2005) DOI: 10.1007/s10865-005-2562-z Patient Strategies to Cope with High Prescription Medication Costs: Who is Cutting Back on Necessities, Increasing Debt, or Underusing Medications? Michele Heisler,1,3 Todd H. Wagner,2 and John D. Piette1 Accepted for publication: March 8, 2004 Many chronically ill adults in the United States face high prescription medication costs, yet little is known about the strategies patients adopt to cope with these costs. Through a national survey of 4,055 adults taking prescription medications for one of five chronic diseases, we compared whether respondents cut back on necessities such as food or heat to pay for medications, increased debt,