Health systems and services

No topic in healthcare technology is more urgent and yet more elusive to date than mobile computing in medicine.

This thoughtful and timely book offers physicians and trainees a wide range of insights and strategies to help ensure not only a healthy lifestyle and sense of wellbeing but the best possible career in medicine as well.

Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this case-based guide emphasizes the latest investigative advances in both imaging and molecular diagnostics and new treatment approaches for a wide variety of common and complex endocrine conditions.

Patient-centered care is a way of thinking and doing things that considers patients partners in the development of a healthcare plan designed to meet their specific needs.

Combatting mental health stigma and discrimination has moved from a radical idea in the 1990s to mainstream policy today.

Mit Hilfe dieses Buches verschaffen sich Angehörige der Heilberufe (Ärzte, Heilpraktiker, Pflegekräfte, Krankenhausmitarbeiter usw.

Addressing the challenge of covering heath care expenses—while minimizing economic risks.

The ABC of Clinical Leadership explores and develops the key principles of leadership and management.

None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life.

'This book provides the background and practical guidance for all those of us who face challenges for the way we handle medical records.

If you are looking for a succinct overview of the ideas and debates that shape the field of interagency working, then this is the book for you.

A regional and functional approach to learning human neuroanatomy - enhanced by additional full-color illustrations and PowerPoint(R) slides of all images in the text for instructors!

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address.

Rural Healthcare was the first textbook of rural medicine in the UK.

Winner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2015 Book of the Year AwardGiven the on-going changes and challenges faced by today's health care organizations, Organizational and Process Reengineering Approaches for Health Care Transformation provides a practical, leader-led and team-based approach for reengineering o

In einer Welt, die von synthetischen Schönheitsprodukten und invasiven Eingriffen dominiert wird, besinnt sich Franka Wiese auf die zeitlosen Weisheiten der Natur.

As we move into the 21st century it is becoming increasingly difficult to offer appropriate introductory clinical experiences for medical students.

Is a climate of instant gratification affecting young childrens characters so that they no longer understand the virtue of patience?

In der Ausbildung werden (Zahn-)Medizinerinnen und (Zahn-)Mediziner spärlich mit dem Thema Personalführung bzw.

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

Responding to Men in Crisis is based on new research looking at gendered assumptions about rationality and men's mental health.

The medical sector has been growing exponentially over the last decade and healthcare services are becoming more complex and costly.

Quality in Healthcare: A Lean Six Sigma Project Approach delivers essential insights into quality management and performance improvement, focusing on the application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies in healthcare environments.

Cool Connections is an early intervention programme for young people aged 9-14, focusing on preventing anxiety and depression.

This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain.

This book presents the latest knowledge on both the physiological and the microbiological aspects of wound healing.

The author's previous book, Transition to 21st Century Healthcare: A Guide for Leaders and Quality Professionals, provides a high-level view of American healthcare as transitioning through a period of industrialization, breaking down the fading structures of 20th century healthcare, and paving the way for 21st century healthcare.

Auf den Tafeln zur Akupunktur sind in }bersichtlicher Formdie wichtigsten Punkte einer Region zusammengefa~t undtopographisch dargestellt.

Health and sustainability have become ubiquitous topics in all realms of popular discourse.

A deeply concerned physician reflects on today’s doctor-patient relationships and offers a compelling vision of a better way to practice medicine Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change.

This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers.

Seit dem Beginn der Arbeiten zur ersten Auflage dieses Wörterbuchs sind mehr als 25 Jahre vergangen.

This book focuses on the development and use of interoperability standards related to healthcare information technology (HIT) and provides in-depth discussion of the associated essential aspects.

This book considers how mental health services have evolved over the past three decades to meet the needs of people with intellectual disability, focusing on the ways that theories and policies have been applied to clinical practice.

All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others.

This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective.

This book is based on our most recent investigations revealing the complexity of the determinants of burn out in different populations at risk (health care professions, teachers, social workers etc.

Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital?

Zahlreiche Diskussionen und Veränderungen charakterisieren die Krankenhauslandschaft der vergangenen Jahre.

This new edition provides a model and road map to answer clinical questions related to intervention effectiveness research, quality improvement, and program evaluation.

Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform has created major changes in the U.

This book provides a clinically useful resource for evaluation and management of the symptoms and issues that burden survivors of breast cancer.

This book provides an evidence-based, practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the most frequent fungal infections in a general hospital.

The widespread condemnation of drastic price increases on life-saving drugs highlights our growing dependency on and vulnerability to international pharmaceutical conglomerates.