Are Formularies a Cost Saver for Managed Care?
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10 pages in length. States the pros and cons in the use of formularies in managed health care plan, stressing that the use of formularies is advantageous in the long run. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
Filename: JGAformu.wps

Are Formularies a Cost Saver for Managed Care?
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10 pages in length. States the pros and cons in the use of formularies in managed health care plan, stressing that the use of formularies is advantageous in the long run. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
Filename: JGAform2.wps

Are Kids Overmedicated?
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6 pages in length. From the moment they are born, parents and pediatricians work hard to keep babies healthy. This day and age of tremendous technological breakthroughs continue to make the challenge that much easier with a combination of preventive and curative treatments. However, the ease with which these treatments are so effective and readily available has created a problem in and of itself: Today's children are severely overmedicated. One treatment in particular that has caused a great deal of the problem is antibiotics, inasmuch as pediatricians often prescribe this so-called "cure all" medication without requiring a culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Arenas of accountability for health care workers
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A three page paper which looks at the four arenas of accountability as set out by Dimond, and considers the ways in which these impact on the rights and duties of health care workers. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JLarenas.rtf

Argument Against the Use of Ritalin
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An 8 page paper which argues against the use of ritalin for attention disorders in children. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: RArit2.rtf

Arsenic in Children’s Playground Equipment
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A 5 page paper which examines how the risk of using arsenic poses to children who use the playground equipment, discusses the consequences of exposure in terms of the magnitude, duration of exposure, the types of health effects and their likelihood, and finally considers how the risk might be lowered. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Article Analysis: Nursing Shortage
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This 3 page paper discusses the nursing shortage, five of its causes, and why the American public and elected officials have to address this issue. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Article Appraisal; Can a developed country’s maternal mortality review be used as the ‘gold standard’ for a developing country
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This 6 page paper is an assessment of an article by Mantel and Moodley “Can a developed country’s maternal mortality review be used as the ‘gold standard’ for a developing country” published in the European Journal of Obstetrics and Genecology and Reproductive Biology in 2002. The paper looks at the general approach, the methodology and its’ strengths and weaknesses and the validity of the study. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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Article Critique/Caffeine, Nicotine Study
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A 3 page article critique that summarizes a study performed by Blank, et al (2007), which deals with the influence of caffeine on nicotine’s effects on nonsmokers. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khcafnic.rtf

Article Critique/Substance Exposure & Neonates
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A 15 page research paper that offers critique, which examines the research study conducted by Lester, et al (2002), which is part of a prospective longitudinal multi-site investigation into the effects of prenatal cocaine and/or opiate exposure on the neurological developmental outcomes of term and pre-term infants at one month of age. The report first summarizes the information given by the researchers about the significance and scope of this problem. Then the various section of the study are summarized and discussed. This includes section on the methodology that was employed, the research findings, and discussion of the implications of the research. Also included in this report is a literature review of relevant studies that pertain to this topic. This critique concludes with a summation of the implications for further research, as well as the implications for social work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khneoad.rtf

Article Review
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This 12 page paper reviews and critiques the article by DiLorenzo (et al, 2004) entitled “Comparison of Older and Younger Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis: A Preliminary Investigation”, published in Rehabilitation Psychology in May 2004. The critique considers the overall presentation of the ape and looks at the methodology in-depth, before assessing the conclusions and considering how the conclusions may be used. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
Filename: TEMSreview.rtf

Article Review on Psychotropic Medications
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This is a 6 page review of the current literature available on psychotropic medications. Five articles are discussed. The review of the literature available about the concerns, usage and effects of psychotropic medication is fairly extensive. Researchers have examined use in children, adolescents and adults as well as in pregnant women. Many of the articles provide good details on the different medications available as well as their contraindications and side effects. Although the physiological mechanisms are not completely analyzed yet in the field of medicine psychotropic drugs are used widely across the country. In fact, many critics have concluded that children have been overly prescribed medications as in the case of Ritalin, the most common psychotropic medication prescribed for children which has increased in usage by over 700 percent in the last ten years. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJpsyre1.rtf

Article Review: Effect Of Estrogen On Obesity And Diabetes
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An 8 page paper that reviews an article entitled: "Estrogen can prevent or reverse obesity and diabetes in mice expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide." The essay reports and comments on methodology, research questions, introduction, theoretical foundation, results, discussion and conclusion.
Filename: PGestrg.rtf

Article Review: Exposure To Smoke And Fetal Growth
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An 8 page paper that reviews and critiques an article entitled, "The exposure of nonsmoking and smoking mothers to environmental tobacco smoke during different gestational phases and fetal growth." This was a large study involving more than 6,000 mother-infant pairs. The essay reports and comments on methodology, research questions, introduction, theoretical foundation, results, discussion and conclusion. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Article Summary/Medicare Audits for PTs
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A 3 page article summary that addresses an article by John Wallace on Medicare audits as they pertain to physical therapists. Medicare and Medicaid paperwork can present physical therapists (PTs) with a complicated set of "red tape" regulations that have to be followed explicitly. Furthermore, he various audits and review processes that can be PT practices add to the confusion. In his article, "A look at who's doing the reviewing, what's being scrutinized and how best to ensure compliance," author John Wallace offers a Medicare audit and review primer for PTs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khpts.rtf

Asbestos
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A 10 page paper which discusses the history and the current situation of asbestos as it relates to its position as an occupational carcinogen. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Assessing a Health Needs Assessment
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This 8 page paper assesses a research paper called A Health Needs Assessment of Black and Minority Ethnic Children’s Needs, which was conducted in the Leeds area in the UK. The paper is in three parts. The first part looks to determine if the report make use of information from primary health care sources and how this be improved. The second part of the paper considers the way the report is written and if it follows a logical pattern and the last part of the paper considers the role health assets could play in the research. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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