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Extending Canadian Health Insurance
Options for Pharmacare and Denticare
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
This study explores the policy options a provincial government might consider in extending health care coverage to the purchase of prescription drugs and dental care. It examines the major public policy objectives involved, such as spreading risk, redistributing wealth, and reducing the barriers to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to write a Foreword for this new book. In the past two decades we have witnessed very significant advances in the management of the very ill patient. The great success in this field of medical endeavour is largely due to the establishment of intensive...
by Desiree Tait, Jane James, Catherine Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book helps adult nursing students to competently manage care of critically and acutely ill patients, and to recognize and deal with the early signs of deterioration. The book takes a practical real-life approach to care, with each chapter focusing on patients with specific problems, then interweaving...
Cardiac Diagnosis for Acute Care
The NP's and PA's Guide to a Comprehensive History and Deciphering the Differential
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Helps clinicians to systematically look beyond the obvious to arrive at a correct diagnosis
Written specifically for both novice and experienced cardiovascular clinicians in acute care settings, this is the only resource to focus on the art of conducting an in-depth patient history. Too often,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The 30th Anniversary volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care looks at the important links between major social factors and health and health care. The four main factors examined in the book are race/ethnicity, immigration, Socioeconomic Status (SES) and gender. Starting with an introductory...
Neurocritical Care Essentials
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This practical new resource uses a highly visual approach to summarise and simplify neurocritical care topics which can often seem daunting in their complexity. Diagrams, flowcharts, figures and tables highlight the main principles of disease pathophysiology, diagnosis and management, giving an easy-to-understand...
A Sea of Broken Hearts
Patient Rights in a Dangerous, Profit-Driven Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
This is a must-read for summer runners, baby-boomers, and anyone who suspects that they or a loved one has been harmed by medical errors in our health care system. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors, but most mistakes are kept secret from patients.
After learning...
Endangered Private Practice
Surviving Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Endangered Private Practice explains how health care reform, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, affects and will be affecting those providers within the delivery system section of health care. Private practice businesses cannot continue to offer quality services while losing money,...
Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine
Empowering Discernment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious values
Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling...
by Adriel Bettelheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
One of the most controversial aspects of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was how the government measures the cost effectiveness and quality of care and factors it into the way doctors, hospitals and other providers are paid.The decisions determine how Medicare and other big...
by David L. Reich, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Monitoring in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care is a practical and comprehensive resource documenting the current art and science of perioperative patient monitoring, addressing the systems-based practice issues that drive the highly regulated health care industry of the early twenty-first century....
by Clifford S. Deutschman, MS, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, edited by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman and Patrick J. Neligan, provides objective data and expert guidance to help answer the most important questions challenging ICU physicians today. It discusses the clinical options, examines the relevant research, and presents...
Cardiac Dilemma
Navigating Your Heart Disease for Positive Results
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Your medical care is under attack! Obamacare, Medicare and the whole insurance infrastructure is placing your health and well-being in grave jeopardy. When it comes to cardiology care, the patient is completely at the mercy of the hospital and the doctor, while being kept ignorant of the costs...
Coronary Care Units
Proceedings of a European Seminar held in Pisa, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The dimensions of the socio-economic problem represented by ischemic heart disease require a concentration of effort for its treatment and prevention at least comparable to that in program for neoplastic disease. It appeared a logical conclusion of the work of the CMSI ad hoc group to organize a seminar...