Medical administration and management

This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries.

Updated third edition of the authoritative textbook on business models and trends in the tech sectors of the healthcare industry.

The world's problems are indeed world problems: social and environmental crises, global trade and politics, and major epidemics are making public health a pressing global concern.

Project management is recognised as a core competency across health and community services environments, yet it can be challenging for new project staff and practitioners to balance the needs of stakeholders and ensure the best outcome for everyone involved.

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Healthcare is on a critical path, evolving with the introduction of Obama Care and now COVID-19.

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Operations Management in Healthcare: Strategy and Practice describes how healthcare organizations can cultivate a competitive lead by developing superior operations using a strategic perspective.

This updated volume provides a guide to the theories and concepts of leadership in surgery.

The ethical aspects of the operation of healthcare organizations (HCOs) are central to the delivery of health care.

The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s uses a range of empirical evidences and case studies drawn from previously unpublished archival sources to offer one of the first international comparative studies on the transformation and modernization of hospital management globally, a century ago.

This volume is a collection of critical ideas relating organization science to both operations and accomplishments in the health care environment.

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey.

Hospital Capacity Management: Insights and Strategies details many of the key processes, procedures, and administrative realities that make up the healthcare system we all encounter when we visit the ED or the hospital.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives.

Focusing on practical, patient related issues, this volume provides the basic concepts of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) as they relate to Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and presents various practical applications.

This volume provides a theoretical framework for visionary leadership as well as specific management techniques to achieve success.

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

Leading and Managing Health Services: An Australasian Perspective is an indispensable resource for students in the ever-changing healthcare industry.

This important book introduces pharmacists and pharmacy students to the basics of disaster and emergency management, illustrating not only the different roles that pharmacists can play within any disaster or emergency, but the practical steps they can take to prepare for these events.

The Practice of Psychiatry in General Hospitals offers an insightful historical and practical analysis of the evolving role of psychiatry within mainstream medical institutions.

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

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.

NHS support workers, such as nursing Healthcare Assistants, Maternity Support Workers, and Therapy Assistants, often provide the majority of face-to-face care to patients, clients and their families.

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are a recent innovation in hospitals that makes critical care teams available to a nurse within seconds.

PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS"e;If I had to sum up this book in one word, the word would be 'brilliant'!

Who are NHS middle managers?

Are you involved in caring for people at the end of their life?

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

Quality of Life: An Interdisciplinary Perspective presents the Quality of Life using a contemporary and interdisciplinary approach.

What do social workers need to know in order to practise skilfully and effectively?

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.

The most convenient, quick-access admissions guide available, packed with clinical facts, figures, and data you will refer to again and againConcise yet complete, this indispensable resource is filled with not-to-be-missed details for admissions orders and the management of newly admitted patients.

This new edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations offers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making major capital investments; determining cost and using cost information in decision-making; budgeting and performance measurement; and pricing.

Dramatic changes to the structure of health systems since the 1980s has seen the development of large, integrated health organizations designed to provide scale and scope advantages, improve the quality of care and health outcomes, and provide greater bargaining power relative to payers and large employers.

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

This new edition of The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations offers a peerless guide for health care leaders to understand information technology (IT) strategic planning and implementation.

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.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care.

Essentials of Hospital Neurology is a concise and practical guide to the diagnosis and management of neurologic disorders commonly encountered in hospital practice.

In today's health care environment, the drumbeat for care coordination grows louder and more urgent.

During the last few years the science of human genetics has been expanding almost explosively.

Hospital Capacity Management: Insights and Strategies details many of the key processes, procedures, and administrative realities that make up the healthcare system we all encounter when we visit the ED or the hospital.

In a rapidly-changing healthcare industry, the American College of Physician Executives affirms: "e;These days, it isn't enough to be a good doctor.

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicines most closely guarded secrets.

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "e;meaning"e; in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to look beyond the role of antidepressant treatment in this population.