Medical administration and management

Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application.

Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies.

This is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care delivery or their programs with LGBTQ-inclusive care.

This volume describes the impact of headache disorders on public health, and their adverse consequences for society.

This comprehensive text is the definitive academic pain medicine resource for medical students, residents and fellows.

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

Heart Failure: Strategies to Improve Outcomes, the first volume in the Cardiovascular Team Approach Series, presents the true integrated care approach to the common syndrome of heart failure.

This detailed volume illustrates the transformative nature of systems and complexity sciences for practice, research, education, and health system organization.

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 book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship.

This book tackles the most common challenges that medical students experience that lead to burnout in medical school by carefully presenting guidelines for assessment, management, clinical pearls, and resources for further references.

This book provides an evidence-based, practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent fungal infections in a general hospital.

This book offers valuable guidance to neurointensivists, other neurocritical care staff, and those desiring to develop a neurocritical care unit via a thorough discussion of neurological emergencies and neurocritical care unit organization.

This book provides cutting-edge information on the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures and treatment approaches for the main white matter (WM) disorders of the central nervous system (CNS).

Women now represent over half of medical school matriculants, almost half of residents and fellows, and over a third of practicing physicians nationally.

This cutting-edge guide to value-based radiology provides readers with the latest information on all aspects of the subject.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive yet concise overview of the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of big data in healthcare.

This new edition provides updated procedural recommendations and outcomes in all areas of endoscopic, robotic, and laparoscopic urology.

A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the "e;revolt against psychiatry,"e; including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists.

This textbook is the new edition of Purnell's famous Transcultural Health Care, based on the Purnell twelve-step model and theory of cultural competence.

This edited volume, featuring five new chapters from invited authors, provides an updated and evidence-based explanation of leadership within a healthcare environment.

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform.

This contributed book is the first to focus on the Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision (CLES) framework.

This text uses a case-based approach to share knowledge and techniques on how to operationalize much of the theoretical underpinnings of hospital quality and safety.

This book functions as a practical reference for recognizing various patient presentations, signs, and symptoms that must be considered when treating  neuromuscular disorders (NMD).

This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector.

This book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations.

This book teaches the theories and concepts behind surgical quality improvement and explains the skills and traits needed to become a high quality provider.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

This practical guide provides the perspectives needed to treat acute and chronic pain in the hospital.

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.

This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management, and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly developing countries, respecting local culture.

Digital disruption in healthcare is generating new technologies, applications, and large data sets, and these are all precipitating significant changes in healthcare processes.

This book provides innovative practical suggestions regarding the production and management of medical records that are designed to address the inconsistencies and errors that have been highlighted especially in relation to national eHealth programs.

This book published in the Clinical Cases in Dermatology series is a concise practical guide designed to facilitate the clinical decision-making process in the management of leprosy and its complications.

This book brings together a series of experts and experienced clinicians to describe and discuss a series of BPD cases in a manner that emphasizes core descriptive and diagnostic features, generalizable principles and techniques, and key take-home messages for clinicians at all levels of experience.

This book provides an overview of the US laws that affect clinical practice for healthcare professionals with no legal background.

This text will act as a quick quality improvement reference and resource for every role within the healthcare system including physicians, nurses, support staff, security, fellows, residents, therapists, managers, directors, chiefs, and board members.

This extensively revised second edition of the text discusses the management of various aspects of the professional life of newly qualified urologists as well as more experienced urologists.

This book explores the current wider political, social and economic context of hospitals in the public and private sector globally and identifies the push and pull tension between the demands of the quality regulator and the requirements of health care commissioning processes.

This extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology.

The book presents the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative medicine facilities, as presented by architects and engineers at the International Scientific and Practical Conference Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure Solutions for Innovative Medicine Facilities, held in St.

Das Buch beschreibt Theorie und Praxis der Kommunikation im Krankenhausalltag zwischen den verschiedenen Berufsgruppen.

How do survivors of child abuse, bullying, chronic oppression and discrimination, and other developmental traumas adapt to such unimaginable situations?

This book describes an evidence-based, practical approach to diagnosis and treatment of the fungal infections most frequently encountered in a general hospital.

With advances in technology and medical science, children with previously untreatable and often fatal conditions, such as congenital heart disease, extreme prematurity and pediatric malignancy, are living longer.

This book provides an understanding of the challenges that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face in receiving medical care and helps equip medical professionals to overcome these challenges to provide high quality, compassionate medical care to this population.