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Beck Depression Inventory
Beck Depression Inventory Definition The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a series of questions developed to measure the intensity, severity, and depth of depression in patients with psychiatric diagnoses. Its long form is composed of 21 questions, each designed to assess... Read more |
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bioethics
bioethics in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion , euthanasia , in vitro fertilization , and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical ). In the 1970s bioethics emerged as... Read more |
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castration
castration removal of the sex glands of an animal, i.e., testes in the male, or ovaries and often the uterus in the female. Castration of the female animal is commonly referred to as spaying. Castration results in sterility, decreased sexual desire, and inhibition of secondary sex characteristics.... Read more |
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Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt , 1846-1906, Irish revolutionary and land reformer. He joined the Fenian movement in 1865 and was imprisoned three times by the English for his revolutionary activities. Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell were the leading figures in the organization of the National Land League in... Read more |
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas (1854–58) refers to the violent civil disturbances in Kansas over the question of whether the territory would be slave or free.Slavery was prohibited in land north of 36°, 30′ under the Missouri Compromise. But in 1854, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of... Read more |
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Humiliati
Humiliati [Lat.,=the humbled ones], Roman Catholic association of laymen formed in the 11th cent. in Lombardy. They wore plain clothes and lived under special vows, but mingled freely with the world. They were protected by the papacy in most of the 12th cent., and some of them were organized into... Read more |
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Monoplacophorans
Monoplacophora (phylum Mollusca) A class of primitive, almost bilaterally symmetrical, univalved molluscs, whose limpet-shaped shell of calcium carbonate consists of an external periostracum, a prismatic layer, and an internal, nacreous deposit. The circular foot and radula are ventrally placed, and... Read more |
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HMO role in research debated. (health maintenance organizations)(Benefits:...
As more health maintenance organizations...research, some health care buyers...Assn. that questioned managed care organizations' willingness...improved quality; that...perspective of a health ... |
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Late News.(Health maintenance organizations face class-action lawsuits)(Legal...
...several major health maintenance organizations that charges...to fund care quality efforts Three...the quality of health care. The grant...plans WellPoint Health Networks Inc...lawmakers-who ... |
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HMO nurses as gatekeepers: Oxford cost-cutting plan may face obstacles....
...in as primary health care providers...clinics or for health maintenance organizations. Under an agreement...based Oxford Health Plans Inc. and...to improve the quality of health care...Xerox Corp., ... |
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California proposes HMO cover mandate for 'necessary' meds.(News)(Department...
...regulations requiring health maintenance organizations in California...Department of Managed Health Care. The department...determining which drugs health plans must cover...provide the best-quality care at an ... |
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California regulators seeking information on 'cross-border' HMOs. (California...
...officials recently questioned employers, insurance brokers and health plan operators during...emerging trend in health care coverage...scrutiny over care quality or grievance procedures...need to provide the health plans, ... |
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California rates HMOs.(Health Maintenance Organizations)
...preventive care, even as overall quality of care and member satisfaction...when consumers can switch health plans through their employers...But a consumer advocacy group questioned how useful the report really...a meaningless comparison of health plans while ... |
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INDIANA & THE REGION
...doing more to regulate health maintenance organizations. Seventy percent of...Indiana Association of Health Maintenance Organizations, questioned whether the poll accurately...learning, academic program ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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TAKING A STAND FOR POOR, ABUSED CHILDREN
...welfare reform, health care, child welfare...of the Englewood Health Department, said...receive Medicaid in health maintenance organizations. She questioned whether HMOs will...efforts to improve the quality ... |
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AHCPR: Reliability of current physician report cards questioned.
...report cards questioned (C)1994...Agency for Health Care Policy and...staff-model health maintenance organization, an urban medical...the Diabetes Quality Improvement Project...and the U.S. Health Care ... |
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Pawlenty issues challenge on health care: Governor calls for universal...
...performance and quality -- not just...part of his health care agenda...14,000 health care workers...income health program...Pawlenty questioned whether health maintenance organizations are ... |
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