Hospital Administration category: 168 books
Conflicted Health Care
Professionalism and Caring in an Urban Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital as a patient or family member of a patient hopes that those who attend to us or our loved ones are at their professional best and that they care for us in ways that console us and preserve our dignity. This book takes an intimate look at how health care practitioners...
Never Be Afraid to Do the Right Thing
A Leadership Guide in an Age of Change and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this business memoir, Dr. Levey shares with the reader lessons learned from many years of experience.
A trained internist and endocrinologist, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute while at the University of Miami, a senior vice president for one of the world’s leading...
by Sandeep Jauhar
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist.
Hoping for the stability he needs to start...
by Donna O. Farley, Melony E. Sorbero, Susan L. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
To learn how hospital labor and delivery units can achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices and how much such practices affect staff experiences and patient outcomes, RAND researchers studied five units as they implemented improvements in their teamwork practices over a one-year period....
by Michael W. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Many nurses are unhappy. The demands on them are great and praise is rare. Conflicts between nurses are so common, there’s a term for it—”Nurses eating their own.” Morale is often low, turnover is high, and costly mistakes are made. Based on experiences at one of the country’s top children’s...
by Chi-Cheng Huang, MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, edited by Chi-Cheng Huang, covers topics including: Readmission and Prevention; New Anticoagulants and Their Use; Electronic Health Records, Intraoperability, and Lessons Learned; Rapid Response, MET Calls, and Codes as a Nocturnist;Controversies in Perioperative...
by James Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. The tenth issue in our growing online database, edited by James Newman, covers essential updates in the following topics: Long QT; Noninvasive ventilation; Fever of Unknown Origin;...
by Steven Deitelzweig, MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions that practicing hospitalists face daily. This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics is Guest Editored by Dr. Steven Deitelzweig. Dr. Deitelzweig has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Bradyarrhythmias;...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Data science has always been an effective way of extracting knowledge and insights from information in various forms. One industry that can utilize the benefits from the advances in data science is the healthcare field. The Handbook of Research on Data Science for Effective Healthcare Practice and Administration...
Cook County ICU
30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
An inside look at one of the nation’s most famous public hospitals as seen through the eyes of its longtime director of intensive care
Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a 30-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the...
Josie's Story
A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).
Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s...
Distracted
How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
After the many bureaucratic changes that followed the passing of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and other legislation, patient care has become secondary to satisfying the whims of government and giant insurance company administrators, who are in total control. The result is a web of complicated...
Why Hospitals Should Fly
The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital? Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.
So what does it take to...
by Kurt Darr, Tracy J. Farnsworth, Robert C. Myrtle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Emerging and experienced health services managers can hone their skills with these challenges and in-depth case studies. With more than 50% new content in this sixth edition, Cases in Health Services Management includes 28 cases and 12 ethics incidents that address contemporary issues encountered...