Medical administration and management

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 shares the knowledge of active and prestigious worldwide researchers and scholars in the field of healthcare monitoring as authors investigate historical developments, summarize latest advancements, and envision future prospects on wearable, attachable, and invisible devices that monitor diverse physiological information.

This book is unique in its global approach to applying the Guidelines for Culturally Competent Nursing Practice that were recently endorsed by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and distributed to all of its 130 national nursing associations.

This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.

This book informs and supports medical educators and clinic leaders regarding the key clinical and administrative components necessary to run an academic medical practice.

This book is dedicated to population health management and how it can be used to improve the health care and outcomes for patients with poly chronic conditions.

This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies.

This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care.

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

This book is designed to provide the reader with comprehension of the principles of contemporary surgical education and skills to design and implement effective curricula that include learning theory, needs assessments, curriculum development, effective teaching methods, valid and reliable assessment of learners, and comprehensive program evaluation.

This forward-looking volume challenges professionals and interested lay readers to reconsider our ways of looking at health and wellness, illness and disease, and the goals of health/healthcare systems.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

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

This book reviews evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings.

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This book describes the approach to anesthetic and perioperative management in different categories of high-risk patient scheduled to undergo elective noncardiac surgery.

This innovative volume introduces Trajectory Analysis, a new systems-based approach to measuring nonlinear dynamics in continuous change, to public health and epidemiology.

Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis.

Primarily intended for DNP and PhD students in nursing and health care who are expected to design research to identify health-related problems and solutions, this book focuses on the concepts, theories and processes of how social determinants affect the health of populations.

This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications.

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 book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

The book provides a description of the process of health economic evaluation and modelling for cost-effectiveness analysis, particularly from the perspective of a Bayesian statistical approach.

This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals.

Translating the realities of healthcare reform and healthcare costs into competitive hospital practice is the goal of this accessible, jargon-free guide.

This book provides a basic introduction to geriatric telepsychiatry, including potential benefits and drawbacks of utilizing this treatment modality.

This comprehensive book focuses on better big-data security for healthcare organizations.

This text was developed as a book aimed at surgeons and allied health professionals that provides an introduction to the unmet needs , epidemiological, socioeconomic and even political factors that frame Global Surgery.

This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

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Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care.

This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages.

This volume is complementary to Volume 1: Quantitative Approaches in Health Systems Engineering which provides in-depth analysis of the statistical and quantitative aspects of Health Systems Engineering.

This book focuses exclusively on the surgical patient and on the perioperative environment with its unique socio-technical and cultural issues.

This comprehensive handbook of consent in surgical subspecialities is dedicated to the risks and complications that a child needs to be consented for in the vast majority of pediatric surgical procedures with evidence base and outcomes.

This book will be a 'how to' guide for medical students interested in pursuing a career in academic surgery.

This book documents how nurses have shown their dedication, courage, expertise and compassion in helping communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disastrous events.

This volume provides the important concepts necessary for a physician to participate in a reengineering process, develop decision-making skills based on probability and logic rather than "e;rules,"e; and to measure and analyze meaningful outcomes of care delivery.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively.

This book is the most current, comprehensive medical text focusing specifically on obesity and its related syndromes and diseases.

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations.

This practical text provides an overview of the adverse consequences of health information technology (HIT) and its impact on patient safety.

This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty.

Following up on Mindful Medical Practice, this book describes in detail how mindfulness is being taught to medical students, residents, practicing physicians, and allied health care professionals.

This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world.

This book examines the extent to which social position impacts exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and whether women with IPV exposure are more vulnerable to social inequities in health.

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.

Thisbook shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach healthservices management statistics effectively.

This handbook provides hospitals, clinics, and imaging centers, along with their medical and technical directors and hospital administrators, with the necessary information and tools to develop quality initiatives.

This book explores a rapidly growing area of discussion in the health care industry, disruptive behavior in medical providers.