This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician. Taking the examination of the h…
This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagnostic strategy and clinical reasoning, both essential components of becoming an effective clinician. Taking the examination of the h…
The use of home detoxification enables health care workers to avoid episodes of in-patient care, with its inherent high costs and secondary problems of label attachment and possible stigmatization. Patients, their carers (professional, voluntary and domestic), families and frien…
This book takes an in-depth look at the emerging technologies that are transforming the way clinicians manage patients, while at the same time emphasizing that the best practitioners use both artificial and human intelligence to make decisions. AI and machine learning are explor…
Health, research methods, evidence-based practice. Chapter 1: Introduction to research, the research process and EBP Chapter 2: Asking questions and searching for evidence Chapter 3: Reviewing literature Chapter 4: Qualitative research Chapter 5: Quantitative research Chapter 6:…
"Decisions about life, quality of life, and death are routine in critical care practice. To promote the ethical principle of patient autonomy, clinicians often find themselves incorporating their medical expertise into value-laded conversations with patients and families of inca…
Structured around eight chapters, this book introduces ethical theory and practice to healthcare students and professionals, including those working in medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, and research. Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced…
Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced with difficult questions and decisions: this book meet those ethical needs by providing an accessible guide to ethical theories and practices, which does not presuppose any background or training in philosophy.
"An accessible guide to ethical theories and practices, which does not presuppose any background or training in philosophy while at the same time not renouncing the fundamental questions at the core of the medical profession." -- Back cover.
"One person in four will develop a mental illness at some point in life. The vast majority will suffer from mild to moderate depression, anxiety or substance misuse. As a result, most mental healthcare is delivered in general practice. That is why we wrote this book: a book of p…
