Patient Care category: 3822 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The use of alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical drugs, illicit drugs and other substances are widespread throughout the world and are amongst the leading causes of disability and death. Increasingly, medical approaches of treating these disorders have established themselves as effective interventions...
by Samir K. Ballas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Sickle Cell Pain is a panoramic, in-depth exploration of every scientific, human, and social dimension of this cruel disease. This comprehensive, definitive work is unique in that it is the only book devoted to sickle cell pain, as opposed to general aspects of the disease. The 752-page book links...
by Colin R Martin, David R Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This invaluable text on the design and analysis of clinical research studies explains the basis of experimental design and statistics in a way that is sensitive to the clinical context in which nurses work. It uses data from actual studies to illustrate how to:
*design the study
*use and select...
by Dawn Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This practical book provides a handy reference for the doctor confronted with patients complaining of headache. Headache is one of the most common complaints seen in the outpatient or ambulatory care setting, and may be caused by a wide variety of conditions. This book clearly explains up-to-date...
by Suzanne Everett
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Offering a comprehensive guide to contraception and sexual health, the new edition of this practical handbook has been fully updated. It takes an integrated approach to sexual health, and now includes additional content on sexually transmitted infections as well as assessment skills.
Giving...
Allied Health
Practice Issues and Trends into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Make the most of your contribution to health care delivery!
Allied Health: Practice Issues and Trends in the New Millennium is a comprehensive look at present and future concerns in the allied health care field. Leading experts in allied health practice and education address practice and policy...
Palliative care for older people
A public health perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Current projections indicate that by 2050 the number of people aged over 80 years old will rise to 395 million and that by this date 25-30% of people over the age of 85 will show some degree of cognitive decline. Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective provides a comprehensive...
by Marcia Egan, Goldie Kadushin
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Make sure your practice skills are up-to-date with the changes brought on by managed care
As a result of escalating costs, the focus of health care in the United States has shifted from inpatient, hospital-based care to outpatient care in the community. Social Work Practice in Community-Based...
Partners in Palliative Care
Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group...
Hippocrates' Shadow
Secrets from the House of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for championing...
by Laura Cushing-Kidney, Thomas H. Lee, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs...
Your Money or Your Life
Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told,...
Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The definitive story of American health care today-its causes, consequences, and confusions
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was...
by Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The eighth edition of this best-selling text, valued for its concise and balanced introduction to the U.S. health care system, is entirely updated to reflect alterations to health care services, delivery, and financing resulting from the Affordable Care Act. The text describes how our health care...