Medical administration and management

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.

This book presents healthcare logistics solutions that have been successfully implemented at a variety of healthcare facilities.

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

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

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

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.

Administrators in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities  entering their programs.

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

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

The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities.

This comprehensive medical textbook is a compendium of the latest information on healthcare quality.

This book serves as a pocket-sized resource to aid with the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease in the inpatient setting.

There are many definitions of eHealth and no consensus around the underlying idea.

Think - Plan - BuyThis is the first complete guide for creating a sustainable healthcare simulation program/center.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of performing return-on-investment (ROI) analyses for healthcare quality improvement (QI).

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This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE 2019), which took place in Montreal, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2019.

Adolescent homelessness is a growing problem that results in a variety of health challenges.

Following World War II and the exposure of the concentration camps, psychiatry turned its attention to a vast range of cultural concerns with results that seemed to indicate a decline of stigma over time.

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