Does a focus on the bottom line result in a reduction in the quality of health care?

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Do you think that standard costs are used only in making products like wheel bearings and hamburgers? Think again. Standards influence virtually every aspect of our lives. For example, the next time you call to schedule an appointment with your doctor, ask the receptionist how many minutes the appointment is scheduled for. Doctors are under increasing pressure to see more patients each day, which means the time spent with each patient is shorter. As insurance companies and employers push for reduced medical costs, every facet of medicine has been standardized and analyzed. Doctors, nurses, and other medical staff are evaluated in every part of their operations to ensure maximum efficiency. While keeping medical treatment affordable seems like a worthy goal, what are the potential implications for the quality of health care? Does a focus on the bottom line result in a reduction in the quality of health care?
A simmering debate has centered on a very basic question: To what extent should accountants, through financial measures, influence the type of medical care that you receive? Suppose that your local medical facility is in danger of closing because it has been losing money. Should the facility put in place incentives that provide bonuses to doctors if they meet certain standard-cost targets for the cost of treating specific ailments?
YES: If the facility is in danger of closing, then someone should take steps to change the medical practices to reduce costs. A closed medical facility is of no use to me, my family, or the community.
NO: I don’t want an accountant deciding the right medical treatment for me. My family and I deserve the best medical care.
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Write a response indicating your position regarding this situation. Provide support for your view.

HEALTH CARE POLICY AND ETHICS

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HEALTH CARE POLICY AND ETHICS

Please watch the video from the online about Typhoid Mary…

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Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America Typhoid Mary – Low Bandwidth Version Typhoid Mary – Silverlight Player
Ogden-Grable, H.C. and Watters, M.C. (2004). State-Mandated Licensure of Laboratory Personnel. Laboratory Medicine, 35(10), 595-598. State-Mandated Licensure of Laboratory Personnel (PDF)
Sox, H.C., et al. (2002). Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter. Annals of Internal Medicine, 136(3), 243-246. Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium – A Physician Charter
Choose one of the listed topics for your initial posting:
Mary Mallon viewed herself as a model employee and was eager to return to her job as a cook despite being forbidden to by the health department.
What affect, if any, do you think Mary’s ethnicity played in her professional behavior?
Do you consider Mary’s act as that of a “Professional” as defined by Sox?
Comment on your views of individual versus societal rights when quarantining the sick.
After reading the Laboratory Medicine article on state licensure for CLS, summarize the pro and con arguments surrounding the licensure debate. What is the progress of state licensure legislation in your state? What is your opinion of state licensure for clinical laboratory professionals?

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what policies and solutiopns your would support that can improve the quality of the nation’s ever-changing health care system

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Your final is to write about what policies and solutiopns your would support that can improve the quality of the nation’s ever-changing health care system. Previous reports from the WHO , particularly the Institute of Medicine, have examined the strengths and limitations of health care in the United States and have recommended strategies to evaluate and improve the quality of health care. Those reports have encouraged and influenced both public and private initiatives to define and monitor the quality of care, measure health outcomes, develop better evidence and guidance on the appropriate use of medical services, and organize systems to improve health services and outcomes.
Your final should summarize and discuss these issues with depth and breadth. Your paper must speak to the pro and cons of the initiatives you’ve chosen. I am looking for detail in your pros and cons. Why is it a pro or con? Who or what does it impact? Not just a patient but how it impacts the healthcare “system”.  Describe the system if need be. Also your paper should be no shorter the 10 pages and no more than 15 pages not including bibliography.
I hope this helps, good luck!

Formulate the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis for the following situations

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Formulate the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis for the following situations:
a)Junk Email, Inc. Advertises that 63.4{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of its materials are read by the recipients. An environmental group, concerned about waste generation, wants to test this claim.
b) Healthy Chemicals Inc. Boasts that 4 out of 5 doctors prefer their medications. You doubt this claim and decide to test it.
2-Suppose we have to run a test and reject the null hypothesis at 1{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} significance level. Without making calculations can we say that we’ll reject it at 5{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} significance levels? Support your answers with a graph.
3-fill in the information indicating the correct decisions, type I and II errors, corresponding probabilities alpha and beta and the power of the test
A researcher accepts (fails to reject ho)
Ho is true
Ho is wrong
A researcher rejects Ho
Ho is true
Ho is wrong
4- According to Wall Street Journal an employee in a large corporation receives an average of 41.7 emails per day. Needless to say, most of such emails are unimportant and ever distractive. In an effort to reduce email flow, one company established a prority list that all employees are to follow. One month after this list was put into place, a random sample of 45 employees showed that they were receiving an average of 36.2 emails per day. From IT experts, it is known that the standard deviation is 18.5. Has the new policy had any effect? Use 5{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} significance level.
5-Manager of Medicine Hat Community Center claims that the most members are younger than 30 years olf. Having attended to a couple of the Center’s activities, you doubt that this claim is correct. You approach 25 people on random and ask their ages. You have found that the mean age of those people was 37 with the standard deviation of 22 years. Does the data support the managers claim that most members are young? Use 5{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} significance level

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