Medical study and revision guides and reference material

Efforts to improve the quality of healthcare have failed to achieve a meaningful and sustainable improvement.

An up-to-date textbook on the clinical essentials in women's healthcareWritten by an international team of OB/GYN practitioners, this book offers an overview of the most important and common clinical issues in obstetrics and gynecology, including reproductive endocrinology, gynecologic oncology, maternalfetal medicine, and sexuality.

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In every developed country, health care managers, clinicians, purchasers and providers are having to extract greater output from cash-limited resources.

Succinctly explains statistical terms encountered in medicine using non-technical language, giving advice on common pitfalls in techniques.

Concierge medicine represents a relatively novel health care delivery model that is becoming more appealing both to providers and patients because of its potential to improve quality and value in health care.

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts.

The NCLEX-RN exam is not just about what you knowit's about how you think.

Authoritative, clear and concise, this highly acclaimed book continues to be an essential text for all medical, surgical and allied health professionals who are seeking a quick and respected guide to systematically reviewing the literature.

Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental illness, leading to several stereotyped models of horror that have prevailed through decades.

Statutory and mandatory training is an area that all healthcare organisations are required to tackle, yet it is commonly undertaken as a tick-box exercise without flair or creativity.

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Molecular nanotechnology has been defined as the three-dimensional positional control of molecular structure to create materials and devices to molecular precision.

Dieses Schulungsbuch wendet sich an Zielgruppen, welche in ihrer Arbeit mit Alkoholkranken-Menschen direkt und indirekt in Berührung kommen und sich mit dem Thema Alkoholismus aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beschäftigen wollen.

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This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases.

This text is aimed at potential clinical investigators usually physicians, especialy those thinking about doing clinical trials to evaluate new drugs - mostly sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

Black's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years.

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Getting published is crucial for success in biomedicine.

Your knees are shaking, your throat is dry, and out in front of you in the Lerenbaum Room of the Ramada Inn is the 167th Annual Meeting of the Tucson Dentists Weekend Warrior Organization.

This authoritative text on occupational lung disorders builds upon the fundamentals, including clinical, epidemiological, and predictive approaches.

The intentions of this manual are to familiarize beginners with the process of bone marrow evaluation, to provide a succinct preparatory review of bone marrow pathology for the pathology and clinical hematology board examinations, to remediate practitioners whose knowledge of this field is not current, and to strengthen the skills of clinicians who

Medical Psychology: Contributions to Behavioral Medicine discusses the relationship between medical psychology and behavioral medicine and includes critical reviews of the status of diagnostic, treatment, and preventive approaches to a wide variety of medical disorders such as hypertension, cancer, and chronic pain.

Quality communication contributes to smoother running practices, better care and services, greater efficiencies, fewer unhealthy conflicts, more satisfied staff and patients, and an improved ability to meet the challenges of an evolving and increasingly complex health care environment - With packed curricula in most health care training institutions, and hectic schedules in practices and administrative offices, time for teaching vital communication and interpersonal skills is often at a premium.

Communication skills are the cornerstone of being a good doctor and there is a growing trend to incorporate these skills within the medical school curriculum.

Oxford Assess and Progress is a new and unique revision resource for medical students.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

Handbook of Nutritional Disorders is a comprehensive handbook covering topics in nutrition, malnutrition, and the clinical disorders associated with nutrition from deficiency to toxicity.

Many doctors do not receive training early in their careers on the broad range of non-clinical aspects of their work, and confront day-to-day issues for which initial medical education has failed to prepare them.

In recent years, the clinical evolution of thyroid diseases has been studied exhaustively as new discoveries have been made about thyroid malfunction and the effective management of patients.

Barron's Nursing School Entrance Exams provides detailed review and practice materials that you need to achieve success on the various Nursing School Entrance Exams (including the HESI A2, NLN PAX-RN, PSB-RN, RNEE, and the TEAS).

The best way to prepare for the primary or maintenance of certification examinations in dermatology, pathology or dermatopathology.

This book examines how nurses will provide a first-point-of-contact consultation service as an alternative to going to see the doctor.

Now in its third edition, this standard text meets the need for a single source of detailed information on the drugs in use in English-speaking countries.

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A comprehensive study manual for the MRCS surgery viva exam.

The sixth edition of this classic work makes mastering a vast amount of information on internal organs much less daunting.

Get the intensive practice you need to achieve your top score on the NLN PAX-RN ExamPrepare for success on the NLN PAX-RN, the entrance exam required by many nursing schools and allied health programs with this valuable guide.

Many people who suffer from headaches never consult a doctor, believing that no help is available, while others become frustrated and give up the search for relief.

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the nineteenth-century.

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted.

Management of Medical Technology: A Primer for Clinical Engineers introduces and examines the functions and activities of clinical engineering within the medical environment of the modern hospital.

Evidence-based medicine draws on terminology used in biostatistics epidemiology health economics philosophy ethics logic and the social sciences.

Life After Darkness is the remarkable and moving story of a doctor and mother of four who endured seven years of severe depression.

This work provides the reader with an understanding of team building in a health care environment, and shows managers how to build a team that is committed to delivering quality.

An essential, up-to-date textbook for postgraduate trainees preparing for the EBCOG Fellowship exam.