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View Post: Modeling Virtual Patients and Virtual Cases
16 May 2006 by Rachel Ellaway  
The learner may use a scenario or patient to explore personal/professional aspects of the patient-doctor relationship. In this situation the case is intended to promote and guide reflective thinking regarding issues such as conduct, ... Metadata: the base information about an individual that is not particularly medical in nature; Personal: the personal, social, family and economic descriptors of the individual; Records: the specifically medical data about the individual ...
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View Post: The Pentagon's new spiritual fitness programme
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19 Oct 2009 by Jules Evans   ...
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View Post: CHR: A black-box description of Community Health Records - EMR ...
24 Dec 2008 by Nick Harrington  
Because if the emergency room doctors have the information on the patient they know the name, address, their social, family and medical history, what procedures they've had, what lab results, what medications they're on, what their allergies are that gives them a wealth of information. .... They're putting a community portal on top, with one personal health record, and electronic health records, the practice management systems, for all the physicians in the community. ...
View Blog: EMR Interviews - http://www.emrupdate.com/blogs/emrinterviews/default.aspx

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View Post: The Next Hurrah: The Woman in the Gray Flannel Suit
24 Apr 2006 by emptypockets  
They keep medical records, but otherwise no insurance forms, no asking for approval for procedures from accountants, just practice medicine. They also havce opportunities for research if interested. The pay may be less than one could get in a Cadillac practice, but still, you help ordinary ... And if more people adopted it, then the competitive folks working 12-16 hours a day on one thing would be working just as hard to contribute to social, family, and community life. ...
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View Post: Minimum Program Requirements for Alcohol and Drug Residential ...
14 Oct 2008
issues; social, family, and peer interactions; physical health; legal; community living skills and housing information; and the impact of alcohol and/or drug abuse or dependency on each area of the service recipient's life functioning ... ( f) A list of each article of the service recipient's personal property valued at one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more, and its disposition if no longer in use;. (g) Documentation of abuse, medical problems, accidents, seizures, ...
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View Post: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
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View Blog: The importance of quality of life issues for cancer patients is well-recognized by both researchers and clinicians [1-3]. Over the past several decades numerous studies have addressed the physical, emotional, social, ... At that time, each institution reviewed their medical records and identified all women who were diagnosed with their first breast cancer in the previous 3 years, were at least 4 months post diagnosis, and were aged 50 or under at the time of diagnosis.

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View Post: The Name Debate: Married Or Maiden?
23 Jun 2008 by The Huffington Post News Editors  
If we hyphenate, no one will be able to alphabetize it properly; our medical records will be repeatedly lost. If we take our husband's last name, we'll forever feel like a part of our identity was lost, which may or may not be a bigger .... It was personal and important to me. I have grown up in the age of hyphens and maiden names being pulled into marriages that do not last. The marriages I have witnessed lasting are the ones that are focused on life together.... and it ...
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View Post: Trials and Tribulations of An Infertile Man: Thoughts on donor ...
6 Mar 2009 by The Infertile Half  
A lot of people here have spoken about the right of the child to know their bio-family's medical history and other issues that come up with DNA, and I can be sympathetic to that. ... of genetic knowledge that your children conceived through donor sperm would, and they'll be better off than I was because, at the minimum, they'll have grandparents. I really think having the social family is FAR more important than the biological family, so any kid you have will be fine :) ...
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View Post: GirlTalk » Blog Archive » Perils of Modernization: Fat and Sugar
7 Apr 2009 by prerna  
You can learn more about your family history by asking questions, talking at family gatherings, and looking at family medical records, if possible. Try to learn about the medical history of your grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, ...... Since 1986, participants in The Nun Study have had yearly checks on their physical and mental abilities, and researchers have used convent records to discover their social, family and educational background in early life. ...
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View Post: World Journal of Surgical Oncology
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View Blog: FACT-B is a 36 item self administered scale containing 4 general subscales i.e. physical, social/family well being, functional and emotional well being, the fifth subscale contain 9 items and is specific for breast cancer. .... This study is funded by a generous grant from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) New Delhi, India vide grant number 5/13/74/2000/NCD-III. The funding organisation had no role is study design. The study is independent from the funders.

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