"Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine: A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach focuses on improving a Hospitalist's ability to provide quality palliative care in the inpatient hospital setting. Although several large textbooks exist for the palliative care provider, there are few det…
"Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine: A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach focuses on improving a Hospitalist's ability to provide quality palliative care in the inpatient hospital setting. Although several large textbooks exist for the palliative care provider, there are few det…
"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers in…
This book explores military patients' experiences of frontline medical evacuation, war surgery, and the social world of military hospitals during the First World War. The proximity of the front and the colossal numbers of wounded created greater public awareness of the impact of…
The Hands-on Guide to Diabetes Care in Hospital is an ideal companion for ward practitioners, providing answers to these and many other practical diabetes problems, helping you to deliver safe and effective care to patients.
The Hands-on Guide to Diabetes Care in Hospital. 3 am call: `Mrs X has a blood sugar of 23. Come and deal with it' `I think my insulin pen is called something like Solostar' The respiratory doctors started high dose prednisolone, and the patient's glucose is 18 `What is the blo…
3 am call: "Mrs X has a blood sugar of 23. Come and deal with it.""I think my insulin pen is called something like Solostar."The respiratory doctors started high dose prednisolone, and the patient's glucose is 18. What is the blood glucose target for this patient admitted with a…
In 1951, author Renee C. Fox became part of a team composed of metabolic experts, psychiatrists, social workers, and a psychologist who were to pool their methods, seeking understanding of the "human organism's response to life stress". Ms. Fox, a doctoral student in sociology, …
In 1951, author Renee C. Fox became part of a team composed of metabolic experts, psychiatrists, social workers, and a psychologist who were to pool their methods, seeking understanding of the "human organism's response to life stress". Ms. Fox, a doctoral student in sociology, …
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
The goal of the book is provide trainees, junior and senior clinicians, and other professionals with a comprehensive resource that they can use to improve care processes and performance in the hospitals that serve their communities. Includes case studies.
"Presented in full color and enhanced by more than 700 illustrations, this authoritative text provides a background in all the important clinical, organizational, and administrative areas now required for the practice of hospital medicine. The goal of the book is provide trainee…
