Category: Health & Medicine 13691

The evolving technology has led to various improvements in service delivery in almost every sector. Healthcare is one such sector that benefitted from telecommunications. Telehealth medical services provider is a growing phenomenon and attracts debates on the benefits, advantages, and disadvantages. Healthcare experts, researchers, and users have their views on telehealth. This paper identifies some…

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Core Competencies Competencies Implementation Conclusion References Abstract Direct and non-direct care providers have specific core competencies. The definition of these competencies and their successful implementation ensures effective teamwork of the care providers and qualitative health care service as a result. Both direct and non-direct care providers should be competent in…

The research study is an analysis of the benefits of endoscopic band ligation over argon plasma coagulation in the treatment of gastric antral and fundal vascular ectasia. According to research, GAVE is a serious consequence of cirrhosis. Several medicinal, surgical, and endoscopic therapy approaches have been offered, with varying degrees of success. Gastric antral vascular…

Gap Analysis for Closed Loop Referrals The need to have appropriate information sharing system when a patient is referred from one clinician to another, or one health facility to the other has been on the rise. There has been a general concern among medical practitioners that the current systems do not allow for adequate sharing…

Bibliographic Information of the Book Title: Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. Author: Harriet A. Washington Publisher: Doubleday Books Date of publication: 2007 Edition: 1st edition Number of pages: 569 Summary of the Book The book Medical Apartheid is authored by Harriet A. Washington,…

Introduction After abdominal surgery, many patients tend to develop difficulty in breathing or basically the functioning of the whole pulmonary system. These problems can escalate and cause serious pulmonary complications. It’s been found that these complications are a cause of the high rates of morbidity and mortality among patients who have undergone abdominal surgery. Chest…

The socioeconomic gap between American residents has been a topic for a continuous discussion in terms of discrimination, access to the job market, and overall financial opportunities. However, the biggest discrepancy in the US context is the issue of limited healthcare based on ethnic and racial affiliation. Thus, according to the statistics, the vast majority…

Table of Contents Importance of controlled terminology and standards in healthcare The National Health IT Agenda Challenges of data sharing across systems Solutions (strategies to avoid interoperability challenges) References Importance of controlled terminology and standards in healthcare Many healthcare organizations have adopted electronic health records to share data and improve the quality of healthcare provided…

Table of Contents Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion References The inability of medical students and patients to precisely describe the plastic surgeon’s responsibilities leads to a significant misunderstanding of the profession. This paper discusses and analyzes eight scholarly articles about the perception of plastic surgeons’ work. The research results show that most individuals…

The scientific article “A Brief History of Twin Studies” (2016) compiles the most interesting research on twins. First, the article describes how the phenomenon of eugenic studies occurred. Initially, eugenics is the science of improving the human race. The founder of eugenics is the English scientist Francis Galton who lived in the nineteenth century. Using…