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The Gold Standard
The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized "best practices" open up a world of efficient health care delivery....
All In
Using Healthcare Collaboratives to Save Lives and Improve Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In the face of ever-accelerating rates of health reform, the ability to quickly learn and adapt is an increasingly essential survival skill. Collaborative learning, as this book illustrates, is a powerful method to rapidly spread knowledge. Yet knowledge comes in two flavors – “knowledge that”...
Augmented Health(care)™
"the end of the beginning".
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Revised version with also a new chapter "closing the loop" as of November 2018
If you work in health(care), this is your update on the 'future'. This book is about the digital transformation that healthcare is facing. It's not a prediction, blueprint nor is it a manual. But it is...
You Can't Afford to Get Sick
Your Guide to Optimum Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
With a two-week plan for optimum wellness, “America’s best-known doctor” (The New York Times) shows you what you need to know to be in the best health and have the best care.
The crisis in American health has hit home in very personal ways. Every thirty seconds someone in this country...
Giving Superior Care For Your Newborn Baby
Vital Information To Help Parents In Caring For A Newborn Such As Advice On Newborn Baby Health , Newborn Baby Feeding, Newborn Bathing, Helping Baby Sleep Plus Lots More Tips To Care For Your Delicate Newborn The Right Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
For a new mom, taking care of a newborn baby can be very overwhelming. Here are some great tips to help you through:
You should start breastfeeding your newborn an hour after delivery. The breast milk produced in the first 3 days after giving birth is particularly healthy for the baby. Breast...
by Allan Kellehear
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Once it was difficult to see end of life care beyond conventional medical intervention, but hospice and palliative care introduced a more holistic approach, providing quality of life for the dying and their families. This ground-breaking work takes end-of-life care beyond these palliative boundaries,...
Design for Care
Innovating Healthcare Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
by Bernard Moss
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Our ability to communicate is a key part of everyday life and is an essential skill, particularly when communicating with vulnerable people in a health and social care setting.
Presented in a unique and easy-to-use dictionary format, this practical guide will help students and practitioners...
Critically Ill
A 5-Point Plan to Cure Healthcare Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Two decades ago Dr. Fred Southwick witnessed the near demise of his wife while she was being cared for in a prominent academic medical center. For 15 years he blamed the individual physicians who cared for Mary. However five years ago the doctor realized that encouraging individual physicians to try...
by Sonu Dr Goel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This work ushers in a change in the approach of books on hospital administration. To make the text interesting authors have used the case based learning approach. Apart from this many new topics have been introduced in this book which had not been addressed so far in the available books. For example:-...
Privileged Presence
Personal Stories of Connections in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Privileged Presence is a collection of more than 50 stories that capture both the medical and emotional aspects of the health care experience through tales from those who have been there, and offers powerful messages about the essential ingredients of “good” health care: respect, compassion, collaboration,...
The Validation Breakthrough, Third Edition
Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Join the 10,000+ agencies in over 16 countries that are successfully implementing the Validation method in their organizations and start changing how you care for individuals with dementia today! Since its introduction in 1989, Validation has been an effective method of communication that can alleviate...
Physical Assessment of the Newborn, Sixth Edition
A Comprehensive Approach to the Art of Physical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
“The text is… a core text for any program preparing individuals for advanced practice roles in perinatal and neonatal care, and it should be a resource in every setting providing care to neonates. At all levels of practice, it serves as a convenient reference to normal parameters, common variations,...
Critical Care Medicine E-Book
Churchill's Ready Reference
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
This book is a quick reference pocket guide for physicians involved with critical care medicine providing on-the-spot answers to everyday queries regarding laboratory and other investigations, scoring systems, invasive procedures, equipment usage and relevant drug treatment.
Quick reference guide...