Medical administration and management

This extraordinary compendium of religious traditions is invaluable to all healthcare providers.

In recent decades most of the international effort given over to studying and improving the safety of patient care has been focused in acute hospital settings.

This highly practical guide has been completely revised, updated and expanded, highlighting the changing face of dental practice today.

This highly practical, user-friendly guide is based on a broad definition of relational empathy in the clinical context.

This book provides an excellent and easy-to-read path to making the most of your medical career starting as a student.

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

Clinician's Manual on Lupus is an expert overview of Lupus and related conditions that serves as an educational resource for medical students, physicians and other medical professionals with an interest in rheumatology.

Palliative Care: Learning in Practice is an interactive textbook based on models of open learning, action learning, work-based learning, critical companionship and reflective practice.

This book tells the story of John, who has an intellectual disability.

Strategic management of HR in health care is important in delivering high-quality patient care.

This proposed volume will provide state-of-the art reviews of health care management, linking concerns about health care workforce management with health care organization management issues.

This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents.

This volume on patient safety revolves around a central question: How can the increased emphasis on patient safety among healthcare managers be translated into better policy and reduced clinical risk?

"e;This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by current health systems, and provides options for moving forward.

This practical guide offers everything you need to know - what needs to be done, by whom, and by when.

Drawing on key international reports and input from leading healthcare practitioners and educators worldwide, this ground-breaking book closely examines the real issues facing medicine and medical education.

Published in association with the Nuffield Trust This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organisations in the United States and Europe to achieve - and sustain - high quality services for their users.

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O'Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured?

Care integration has become an important part of managing health and social care services all over the world.

Care integration has become an important part of managing health and social care services all over the world.

Healthcare systems across the globe are currently facing perhaps the greatest challenges and pressures to date as the need to improve outcomes, efficiency, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction and sustainability have significantly risen.

Healthcare systems across the globe are currently facing perhaps the greatest challenges and pressures to date as the need to improve outcomes, efficiency, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction and sustainability have significantly risen.

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approaches in organisational settings, with morbidity and financial burdens being of growing concern.

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approaches in organisational settings, with morbidity and financial burdens being of growing concern.

This book contains two Open Access chapters.

This book contains two Open Access chapters.

Over the last twenty years integrated care has been touted as a solution to many issues in health services, such as insufficient coordination between services, cumbersome organizational boundaries, interrupted patient journeys, as well as spiraling health care costs.

Over the last twenty years integrated care has been touted as a solution to many issues in health services, such as insufficient coordination between services, cumbersome organizational boundaries, interrupted patient journeys, as well as spiraling health care costs.

Why are hospitals so difficult to manage?

Why are hospitals so difficult to manage?

The 20th volume of Advances in Health Care Management showcases how health care management research helps to further understand grand challenges in health care: what they are, why they exist, the consequences that they have, and what can be done to address them.

The 20th volume of Advances in Health Care Management showcases how health care management research helps to further understand grand challenges in health care: what they are, why they exist, the consequences that they have, and what can be done to address them.

From precision medicine to pandemics, from value-based healthcare to stakeholder engagement, European health systems are facing unprecedented change.

From precision medicine to pandemics, from value-based healthcare to stakeholder engagement, European health systems are facing unprecedented change.

Following the success of the previous edition, the second edition of Geriatrics Models of Care is the definitive resource for systems-based practice improvement for the care of older adults.

Following the success of the previous edition, the second edition of Geriatrics Models of Care is the definitive resource for systems-based practice improvement for the care of older adults.