Heart disease is a common medical condition that mainly occurs within the adult population. Currently, it is the leading cause for death among women and men, killing around 610,000 Americans each year (CDC, 2016). However, as common as it is, it creates significant challenges for doctors when giving medical treatment. Researchers have been looking for ways to reduce heart disease all together and to improve the type of medical care that is given for it. In order to do this, they have looked at quality improvement measures to assess the relationship between patient outcomes from treatments. Researchers have been successful in reducing deaths and medical complications in other areas of research by extracting data from patients’ electronic
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This disease is a form of dementia in which the patient has issues with their memory, behavior or thinking. Symptoms for this disease develop slowly and begin to worsen with age. As mentioned earlier, the electronic medical record has all of a patient’s medical information recorded. These electronic medical records have been set up to flag the medical professional that is using the system to notify them of possible Alzheimer’s symptoms (Kosik and Clegg, 2010). However, unlike heart disease there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, which means doctors can only help the patient with protocols as the symptoms begin to worsen. Doctors begin by evaluating the patient and giving the patient tips on learning how to handle the symptoms they will experience and will also speak with the family and give them directions on what to do. The sooner the disease is caught, the easier it is for the patient and family to adjust to the new way of life that is going to be swiftly approaching …show more content…
Currently, there are six clinical traits that are significantly associated with the disease, catching five known risk factors and 1 novel association, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (Li, Ruau, Chen, Weber, Butte, 2012). The use of electronic medical records was so important for these findings because it validated that there was a correlation between ESR and the development of Alzheimer’s. Stanford Hospital and Clinics found that female patients with unusually high levels of ESR had an increased risk of being diagnosed with
This disease is a form of dementia in which the patient has issues with their memory, behavior or thinking. Symptoms for this disease develop slowly and begin to worsen with age. As mentioned earlier, the electronic medical record has all of a patient’s medical information recorded. These electronic medical records have been set up to flag the medical professional that is using the system to notify them of possible Alzheimer’s symptoms (Kosik and Clegg, 2010). However, unlike heart disease there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, which means doctors can only help the patient with protocols as the symptoms begin to worsen. Doctors begin by evaluating the patient and giving the patient tips on learning how to handle the symptoms they will experience and will also speak with the family and give them directions on what to do. The sooner the disease is caught, the easier it is for the patient and family to adjust to the new way of life that is going to be swiftly approaching …show more content…
Currently, there are six clinical traits that are significantly associated with the disease, catching five known risk factors and 1 novel association, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (Li, Ruau, Chen, Weber, Butte, 2012). The use of electronic medical records was so important for these findings because it validated that there was a correlation between ESR and the development of Alzheimer’s. Stanford Hospital and Clinics found that female patients with unusually high levels of ESR had an increased risk of being diagnosed with