Medical administration and management

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

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.

Building on the foundation of the previous edition, this book takes readers to the next level of management of medical practices for the 21st century.

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

This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system.

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

Unfälle und Krankheiten verändern oft das Leben von Menschen!

Ce livre, qui réunit les contributions des meilleurs psychiatres français, se propose de faire un état des lieux de la psychiatrie en France et de proposer des pistes de développement pour cette discipline.

Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch bietet Ärzten und Ärztinnen eine strukturierte Orientierung für den medizinischen Arbeitsalltag.

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

This book describes bedside pain management interventions for basic clinical situations commonly encountered during the inpatient care.

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

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

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia.

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

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.

Community-based integrated care (CBIC) is designed to keep older adults where they want to be - at home and out of hospitals and nursing homes.

This book aims to explore technology solutions and systems to help people in remote areas in order to improve medical care.

This essential book reviews how digital health ventures can be integrated with more traditional techniques to revolutionize the healthcare system.

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.

This book provides an overview of the innovative concepts, methodologies and frameworks that will increase the feasibility of the existing telemedicine system.

This book shows how a successful public health policy designed to foster the culture of brain death diagnosis and improve the interaction between Organ Procurement Organizations and Intra-Hospital Organ and Tissue Donation Committees for Transplants led the Brazilian state of Parana to reach one of the highest rates of effective organ donors per million population in the world.

The first edition of Infection Prevention reviewed evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings.

This book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internationally) in ways to better communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) patients and sign language interpreters in healthcare settings.

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

These days, the idea of "e;value"e; is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States.

In this monograph, journalist Rinke van den Brink takes a closer look at the limitations and risks of today's antibiotic use.

Patient safety and quality improvement in health care remain a global priority.

The modern-day practice of health care was imported into Nigeria over 500 years ago.

This book informs nurses about the most common and the more serious errors made in caring for patients with infectious diseases.

This book presents an extensive collection of high-yield case vignettes with recommendations for a comprehensive approach to cultural psychiatry.

This book provides caregivers and administrators with high-quality support for strategic decision making in the selection and use of medical devices so as to ensure value optimization.

This book discusses dental healthcare professionals in the European Union and EU policy output and activities in the context of Europeanization and its impact on oral health care.

This book focuses on the basics of teleneurology and provides an outline of curriculum and practice with the help of clinical vignettes.

Access to approved scientific medical literature is vital in the context of providing standard, evidence-based health care.

The book shows readers exactly how to use Lean tools to design healthcare work that is smooth, efficient, error free and focused on patients and patient outcomes.

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.

In this monograph, journalist Rinke van den Brink takes a closer look at the limitations and risks of today's antibiotic use.

This comprehensive book organizes the components of quality and safety outcomes, within a framework developed by expert nurses.

The landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or "e;Obamacare,"e; is a topic of great debate in mainstream, academic, and scientific media that generated strong opinions across the political spectrum and our nation.

This book presents the first single comprehensive analysis of the scope of geographical realities and relevance in health care work.

This book provides an overview of key issues with regards to implementing telemedicine services as well as an in depth overview of telemedicine in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.

Over the course of the last two decades, improved practices in child and adolescent mental healthcare have led to a decreased environment of stigma, which also led to an increased identification and treatment of mental health disorders in children and youth.

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important.

In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.