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Inappropriate Use of Technology in Healthcare Settings
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Recent government initiatives envisage implementation of a universal electronic health record, by year 2014, by all health maintenance organizations. In enhancing healthcare quality in US and reducing related costs, Healthcare information systems are mainly perceived as the single most important factor. However, lack ...
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Disruptive Technologies and Innovations
Disruptive Technologies and Innovations
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A disruptive innovation can simply be defined as an innovation, which helps build a new market in addition to a value network. This will eventually lead to the disruption of the current existing value network and market over a period of ...
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Exploring research 300
Dementia4
Major Causes of dementia4
Alzheimer disease5
Alzheimer's disease and dementia5
Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease5
Beta-amyloid peptides6
Tau proteins6
Apolipoprotein E6
Dementia in the Alzheimer's disease7
Diagnosis of dementia7
Difference between dementia, Delirium, and depression7
Risk factors associated with dementia8
Treatment of Dementia8
Antibodies targeting beta-amyloid8
Drugs targeting tau9
Insulin sensitizers9
Statins and antihypertensives9
The nerve growth factor9
Memantine9
Early diagnosis9
Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms In Dementia10
Management of ...
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History of the Lobotomy
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Since biological psychiatry, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis have a big influence. The "romantic psychiatrists" postulate that mental patients can be treated by moral and behavioral instructions. In contrast, some neurologists investigating the biology of mental states. Carl Wernicke is related psychiatric symptoms with specific brain areas and ...
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Colour of Bile
Colour of Bile
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Classic teaching in paediatric surgery is that vomiting of bile in the newborn should be attributed to intestinal obstruction until proved otherwise. Reported series have confirmed the requirement for further investigation in this group, with a need for surgical intervention in 30-40%.1 2 To ...
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BEGINNING THERAPISTS
Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists
Issues faced by beginning therapists
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Psychotherapy is a type of therapy used for the purpose of treating psychological problems such as; depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties and mental health problems. It is a dialectical process that is carried out between a professional psychologist or doctor (the ...
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WITH DIABETES
Examining Weight Management in African-American Women with Diabetes
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This descriptive study examined depressive symptoms, cardiovascular risk, and diabetes self-care strategies in African American women (N = 45) with type 2 diabetes (T2D). All completed a questionnaire packet during structured interviews. Significant associations were found between two individual ...
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Obesity related to Diabetes
Obesity related to Diabetes
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Diabetes is defined as the group of metabolic disease which is caused by the high level of blood sugar. The causes of diabetes can be improper function of pancreas such as failing to produce enough insulin or impaired response of blood cells to the ...
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Cardiac Arrest
Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest
Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest
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The frequency and quality of emergency resuscitation training in the UK have improved during the past 20 years (Colquhoun et al 2004). During this period resuscitation guidelines have been reviewed and updated, most recently in 2005 (Deakin et al 2005, ...
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End of Life Decision Making like Euthanasia
End of Life Decision Making like Euthanasia
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Antipathy is not a word but it is the position or it is a feeling because of which Jurisprudence has been generated. No doubt, father of Jurisprudence, Bentham, not only describe antipathy as the deciding factor of law ...