General practice / Family medicine

This book is for researchers and students looking for ways to engage communities and industry in research.

This book covers several areas, such as immunology, infectious diseases, physiology, general nursing, and medicine as well as measurement accuracy and the history of our understanding of fever.

This first-of-its-kind title addresses the failures of an often fragmented healthcare system in managing vulnerable patients with multiple, chronic, co-morbid conditions -- patients who are frequently unresponsive to the methods and approaches used to treat other patients with conditions that are less complicated.

Building upon the highly successful 1st edition, this book is a comprehensive review designed to prepare pediatric residents, fellows, and pediatricians for the General Pediatrics Certifying Examination, and for the American Board of Pediatrics Maintenance of Certification.

This book provides a practical, stepwise, evidence-based approach to effective management of patients with difficult to treat asthma.

This book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art update that covers the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and clinical presentation of the most frequently encountered STIs in adolescence and young adulthood.

This edition is updated to include new research and clinical material for practitioners working with mental health patients of diverse backgrounds.

This book serves as a comprehensive reference for the basic principles of caring for older adults, directly corresponding to the key competencies for medical student and residents.

This ambitious book provides the latest research in leading topics of behavioral medicine and evidence-based strategies for its application in solving clinical problems.

This book is devoted to hypertension in children and adolescents, a clinical issue that - thanks to the strides made in several areas of pathophysiological and clinical research - has received growing interest in cardiovascular medicine over the last several years.

This book offers a guide to common dermatologic conditions most often treated by primary care providers.

Comprised of illustrative clinical cases, this unique pocket guide presents descriptions of patients who have symptoms, physical signs or laboratory abnormalities that they believe are due to disorders of the endocrine system (hormone secreting glands and overall metabolism) but which are not, or probably are not, due to an endocrine disorder.

There have been great strides made in designing the administrative structures of patient-centered care, but it is still difficult to design truly patient-centered clinical routines that the entire healthcare team can enact.

This book establishes and specifies a rigorously scientific and clinically valid basis for nonpharmaceutical approaches to many common diseases and disorders found in clinical settings.

This book presents a selection of neurological clinical cases and tests the reader in order to allow them to gain clinical self-confidence in approaching the case, requesting tests (negotiating test with other specialties e.

This book addresses opioids and opioid use disorders from epidemiological, clinical, and public health perspectives.

 In this ground-breaking book, Dr.

This book describes the fundamental process of senescence, and reviews a new concept developed by a number of research groups that is based on cellular senescence and its secretome.

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The process of aging is frequently associated with changes in the physical and mental functioning of older adults, challenging their autonomy and rendering them vulnerable to exploitation.

Medical students often struggle when presenting new patients to the attending physicians on the ward.

This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues.

Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.

This book provides the basis needed for a dialogue between intensivists and emergency surgeons regarding the management and monitoring of acute care surgery (ACS) patients who require Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission.

Diabetes has become a worldwide health problem, the global estimated prevalence approaches ten percent and the burden of this disease in terms of morbidity and mortality is unprecedented.

This comprehensive, first-of-its kind title is an indispensable resource for pharmacists looking to learn or improve crucial patient assessment skills relevant to all pharmacy practice settings.

This book examines 23 case examples of the most common comorbid presentations of sleep and psychiatric disturbances from a reader-friendly, digestible approach.

This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint.

This unique book is a first-of-its-kind resource that comprehensively covers each facet and challenge of providing optimal perinatal palliative care.

Dementia, now known as major neurocognitive disorder, is not one monolithic disease.

This casebook tackles the common psychiatric illnesses that physicians experience during these early stages of their careers.

This unique resource is a practical, easy-to-use guide for the non-ophthalmologist healthcare provider as they encounter patients with eye complaints and other concerning ophthalmic conditions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of oral signs of a broad spectrum of systemic diseases including gastrointestinal, hematologic, and endocrine, in addition to infectious, nutritional, autoimmune, genetic and connective tissue diseases.

This book is a practical resource that will support the delivery of holistic mental health interventions in the primary and community care setting for older people.

This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the "e;structural competency"e; framework to reduce inequalities in health.

This book offers mental health guidelines for all medical professionals facing the emerging challenges presented by an aging population worldwide.

This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes.

This book provides a guide to the complexities of medical care through adolescence and into adulthood.

Although transgender persons have been present in various societies throughout human history, it is only during the last several years that they have become widely acknowledged in our society and their right to quality medical care has been established.

This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals.

This unique handbook provides pediatric and adult endocrinologists and multidisciplinary clinical care providers a guide to transition from pediatric to adult care and an understanding of developmental and psychosocial issues of young adulthood and how they relate to healthcare and disease self-management.

This book covers a curriculum of topics for treating patients with co-occurring intellectual disabilities and mental illness, better known as dual diagnosis (DD).

Interpersonal trauma is ubiquitous and its impact on health has long been understood.

This book presents up-to-date, practically oriented information on major topics in chronic hepatitis C.

This book presents up-to-date, practically oriented information on major topics in acute hepatitis.

This forward-looking resource shines needed light on-and offers realistic solutions for eliminating-health disparities affecting one of the most vulnerable populations: children.

This book guides readers through the correct use and consequent diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and different phenotypes of arterial hypertension.

This book is a guide for psychiatrists struggling to incorporate transformational strategies into their clinical work.

This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes.