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Review of “Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrow's Prospects”
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A 7 page paper critiquing the report of a study conducted to determine the degree to which current retirees have access to employer-paid healthcare benefits. One of the most persistent and troublesome issue facing policymakers and legislators today is that of managing Medicare and ensuring that the nation’s elderly population has sufficient access to healthcare. The Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) has made changes in facility reimbursement procedures intended to make Medicare function more efficient, but of course the realized effect has been to further complicate the entire process without providing any real benefit to those needing healthcare services. The paper finds the study to be well-designed and well-executed, and makes recommendations for future research. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSfinHlthCareRev.rtf

Review of "It Wasn't Working: Women's Experiences with Short-Term Breastfeeding"
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A 6 page review of this article. As a high quality qualitative study, this one does not pass any of the necessary tests. It does reveal some attitudes and experiences that can be important factors in new mothers' decisions to stop breastfeeding their babies, but it at best can only provide a general indication. Any real conclusions or valid support obtained through research are not found in this study. It can be useful for informing opinion, but it cannot be described as a valid qualitative investigation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSnursArtRev.wps

Review of "Newly Discovered Molecule is a Clue to the Spread of AIDS"
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A 5 page paper discussing newly discovered information reported in a 2001 issue of The New York Times and its implication for promoting understanding of AIDS/HIV infection. This discovery is that the HIV virus is able to attack the first line of defense against invasion, the CD-4 cells responsible for collecting invading particles and delivering them to the lymph nodes where the first real attack is mounted. This ability of the HIV virus to replicate while contained in the CD-4 cells effectively turns them into "Trojan horses" by the time they reach the lymph nodes. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSaids-NYT.wps

Review of "Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin and the Free Androgen Index Are Related to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Multiethnic Premenopausal and Perimenopausal Women Enrolled in the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN)"
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A 5 page paper critiquing a research article for form and validity. The article can be said to have weaknesses in form in that it does not include a literature review and does not define the terms it uses. It still is a highly useful study that can inform patient care, however, particularly the care of peri- and postmenopausal women at risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSresArtRevHor.rtf

Review of Three Articles About Near Death Experiences
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This 5 page paper compares and criticizes three articles written about near death experiences. The author of the paper establishes which paper is the most credible of the three and to which the author had the strongest response. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: Neardeat.doc

Review of WOMAC Study
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A 5 page paper that summarizes study results concerned with the reliability and validity of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), which is a tool that was originally developed in order to evaluate "symptoms and physical disability...for people with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and/or knee" (McConnell, Kolopack and Davis 453). The study that is discussed is basically an extensive literature review on this topic. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khwomac.rtf

Revising the Hospital Compliance Plan
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A 4 page paper suggesting additions to a hospital compliance plan to more closely align it with regulatory requirements. The paper suggests that an identified compliance plan be edited to specifically address issues of billing errors and physician referrals, as well as changes in electronic data security required by HIPAA. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KShlthCrComPlan.rtf

Revolutions in Science and Technology
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A 7 page research paper that discusses advancements and innovations. This examination of scientific creative innovation begins with the medicine and the penicillin revolution, but then looks also at the examples of creative revolutions that have occurred in the contemporary era and concludes with observations bout the way in which scientific and technological creativity tends to overlap. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khrevsct.rtf

Rex Healthcare's Pain Management Clinic
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A 13 page paper examining the position of Rex Pain Management Center, one of the several entities comprising Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper traces Rex Healthcare's history (the original Rex Hospital opened in 1894) and how the organization grew over the years as Raleigh, the capital city, came to be known as the "Silicon Valley of the East." Three major universities in the area – Duke University, University of North Carolina and NC State University – all lie within 30 miles of each other and feature two major medical schools between them. Rex Pain Management Center has the benefit of a broad patient base and active, current research within its geographical reach. Using value chain, SWOT and management theory analyses, the paper concludes with recommendations for current management and for the clinic's long-term future. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: KSmgmtRexHlth.rtf

Rheumatic Fever
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A 10 page paper which examines the issue, significance, agent, condition, morbidity and mortality from the perspectives of person, place and time, considering race, age, gender, geographical area, socioeconomic factors, occupation, education and cyclical or seasonal fluctuations in order to determine long-term trends that may influence future epidemiological research. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: TGrheufv.rtf