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Sentences Correctly Rejected Oades Blank Eggers Processing
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,654 words... s affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. The last number from South Africa is from recent work done by Phil May and colleagues. References England G, Perham-Hester KA, Gessner BD, Ingle D, Berner JE, Middaugh JP. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Alaska, 1977 through 1992: An administrative prevalence derived from multiple data sources. American Journal of Public Health. 1998. 88 (5): 781 - 786. Aberdeen IHS Area (1995) MMWR. vol 44 (#): 253 - 261. BDMP (1995): MMWR Vol. 44 (13): 249 - 253. Atlanta,...
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Cost Containment Strategy In Nursing
609 wordsCost-Containment Strategy in Nursing It is a common knowledge that due to shift to newer, and thus, more expensive drugs, recent increases in drug utilization, and significant expansions in prescription drug coverage the double-digit growth in pharmaceutical expenditures are experienced by Medicaid programs. As far as Medicaid is arguably the largest public purchaser of health care services in the U. S. , the problem of pharmaceutical expenditures growth becomes the issue of the day. Therefore, ...
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2,175 words... healthcare payer-issued ID cards to Internet-based patient medical demographics files that can be downloaded and merged onto the complaints visit form, eliminating the need for the patient to continually fill in things like their name, address, birthdate, insurance carrier, policy numbers, telephone numbers, etc. At most the patient can edit this information retrieved from their ID cards or Internet demographic files, and simply check off the symptoms, presenting complaints or services sched...
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Values And Beliefs Transformational Leadership
1,725 words... task as a member of a multi-disciplinary team rather than as a member of an inter-disciplinary one. Typically, the traditional hospital has resisted the paradigm shift that CQI represents (Lyons & Callahan, 1996, p. 136). Hospital managers refer to the traditional hospital as functional in nature. The functional structure reflects the traditional paradigm that emphasizes specialized departments and internal processes designed to support the medical staff. However, alternative structures, suc...
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Substance Abuse Psychological Disorders
2,956 wordsResearch Proposal Paper # 3 Revised January 28, 2004 Methods of Research & Discipline Inquiry Course # 1005 Aliya Fonseca, MA 10631 Caminito Brandon San Diego, CA 92131 (858) 536 - 8370 Denise Scatena, Ph. D Saybrook Graduate School & Research 450 Pacific St. 3 rd Fl San Francisco, CA 94133 ABSTRACT The proposal is to identify adolescents with mental health and alcohol and drug issues. The study will build on growing research, which suggests adolescents whom abuse or are dependent on alcohol or ...
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Clinical Psychology Iq Scores
1,549 wordsWechsler Memory Scale The WMS is the most widely used memory test for adults and is made up of seven subtests: Personal and Current Information, Orientation, Mental Control, Logical Memory, Memory Span, Visual Reproduction, and Associate Learning. Personal and Current Information consists of six simple questions (e. g. , How old are you? Who is the President of the United States? ). Orientation consists of five questions (e. g. , What year is this? ). Mental Control requires the subject to count...
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Physical Violence Workplace Violence
2,223 wordsLiterature Review OVERALL SUMMARY Overall, this was a good research study that was conducted by professional team of researchers in order to examine the issue of workplace violence, which is related to the most serious problems in health care establishments. As far as the research studies examine various aspects of physical and non-physical violence in health care settings, they present both theoretical and practical backgrounds. The second research conducted by Julie Pryor follows several pract...
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Multiple Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
4,312 wordsAbstract The syndrome of multiple personality is associated with a high incidence of physical and / or sexual abuse in childhood. Occasionally those with multiple personality abuse their own children. Multiple personality is difficult to diagnose both because of the nature of the syndrome and because of professional reluctance. Although multiple personality is most difficult to diagnose during childhood because of the subtlety of the syndrome. The much higher morbidity found in adult cases makes...
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Clinical Psychology Clinical Psychologist
241 wordsCareer In Clinical Psychology A clinical psychologist is a psychologist with a more extensive background in psychology and puts more emphasis on experimental psychological research. A clinical psychologist is more likely to work in health care setting with patients with more severe disorders. Two commonly pursued degrees are a Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology and a Psy. D. in Clinical Psychology. Having a Ph. D. allows you to work in mental health care facilities and settings, hospitals, private pr...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Monozygotic Twins
4,687 wordsDementia What is Dementia? Dementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), because statistically it is the most ...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Monozygotic Twins
4,078 wordsWhat is Dementia? Dementia Dementia Dementia What is Dementia? Dementia is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. Dementia can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known depending diseases include Alzheimers disease (AD), multi-infarct dementia (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay the emphasis will be placed on AD (also known as dementia of the Alzheimers type, and primary degenerative dementia), b...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Risk Taking Behavior
3,198 wordsDepression is a disease affecting the entire mind and body, causing a person to feel miserable in many ways. Changes in brain chemistry make it happen. It is a brain disease. When speaking of depression Im not referring to the normal down periods that everyone goes through once in a while, that can be brought on by a rainy day, a broken heart, the flu or even for no particular reason. People mope around, listen to sad music and feel sorry for themselves. These moods go away within a couple of da...
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2,324 wordsEating Disorders Among Athletes Erin M. Dougherty April 30, 2001 Dougherty 1 Susan is a long distance runner who was at the top of her sport in high school and was even given a scholarship to college. When she got to college she realized that the competition was much steeper and she was no longer the best. Susan did not know how to handle this, she was used to being at the top. She started working out more often and even cut back on what she was eating. She was sure that this would improve her a...
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Normal Body Weight Anorexia Nervosa
1,887 wordsClinical picture in comparison to women The incidence of anorexia nervosa in males is generally agreed upon to be between 5 % to 10 % of all anorexia nervosa cases. (Crisp &# 038; Burns, 1983) Studies show that there tends to be a predominance of the upper social class in cases of eating disorders with almost two thirds of the group from social classes I and II (Sharp, Clark, Duncan, Blackwood, &# 038; Shapiro, 1994). High risk subgroups include jockeys, wrestlers, dancers, and entertainers requ...
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Child Sexual Abuse Child Abuse And Neglect
1,205 wordsThe effects, both long and short, of child sexual abuse have been studied and researched numerous times in order to answer the many questions that relate child sexual abuse to psychopathology. This review is on seven different literature reviews that focus on the effects of child sexual abuse, and they all differ in one way or another. Some are simply focused on the effects, others with the sex of the victim, prevalence of abuse, the severity of disturbance, and other meta-analysis which consist...
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Red Blood Cells Fatty Acids
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Signs And Symptoms Infectious Diseases
1,203 wordsIntroduction to viruses: For centuries submicroscopic organisms, also known as viruses, that grow and multiply at different rates inside of a cell, have been circulating our planet. 1 The cell produces the various, essential components of the virus. These components are: 1) DNA or RNA nucleic acids, which are the genes of the virus. Viral particles posses either DNA strands or RNA strands, but never both in contrast bacterial infections contain both. The amount of DNA/RNA in a virus changes depe...
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Drug Act Medical Devices
1,951 wordsThe term orphan drug refers to a product that treats a rare disease affecting fewer than 200, 000 Americans. Orphan drugs help the companies that manufacture them, under the Orphan drug act. Under the act a small company can pick up a product that would be worth anywhere from $ 5 million to $ 20 million a year. The orphan drug act has helped in the development of products to treat drug addiction, leprosy, hemophilia, and rare cancers, as well as diseases most people have never heard of, such as ...
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