Download or read book Essentials of Hospital Medicine written by Andrew S. Dunn and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital Medicine is the fastest growing field of Medicine, and the importance of hospitalists in the delivery of care and success of hospitals continues to increase. The practice of hospital medicine is both rewarding and challenging: hospitalists need to provide high-quality care using the best available evidence in an efficient, cost-effective manner. In recognition of the need for rapid access to essential information, this text provides a concise yet comprehensive source for busy clinicians. The Handbook of Hospital Medicine provides detailed reviews of all clinical topics in inpatient medicine, including common diagnoses, hospital- acquired conditions, medical consultation, and palliative care, as well as key non-clinical topics, such as quality improvement tools, approach to medical errors, the business of medicine, and teaching tips. It is the single source needed for hospitalists striving to deliver outstanding care and provide value to their patients and hospitals.
Download or read book Your Child in the Hospital written by Nancy Keene and published by Childhood Cancer Guides. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of parents take their child to the hospital each year for stitches, outpatient surgery, or longer stays for serious illnesses. Your Child in the Hospital: A Practical Guide for Parents is packed with sensible tips and home-grown wisdom that will make any visit to the hospital easier. It explains how cope with procedures, plan for surgery, communicate with doctors and nurses, and deal with insurance companies. Woven throughout the text are dozens of practical and encouraging stories from parents who have been through the experience of having a child in the hospital. This new edition contains a packing list, hospital journal for children, and helpful resources for parents.
Download or read book Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.
Download or read book The Hospital Guide to Contemporary Utilization Review written by Stefani Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hospital Guide to Contemporary Utilization Review is a comprehensive resource designed to identify utilization review (UR) best practices and provide guidance on developing and enhancing a contemporary UR committee. This book focuses on the latest UR and patient status requirements to help hospitals perform high-quality reviews and comply with regulations. The book covers a range of topics, including compliance with the UR Condition of Participation, legal obligations of a hospital, contract language, and compliant UR plan language to provide an understanding of the expectations of a UR program. Tips for intradepartmental collaboration are included to guide professionals through the process of selecting a physician advisor and partnering with nurses, case managers, and revenue cycle team members. This book will help you do the following: Identify the components of a best practice hospital utilization review (UR) program Describe the legal obligations of the hospital to comply with chapter 42 CFR 482.30 of the Conditions of Participation (CoP) Use the publication as a tool to assess his or her own hospital's UR processes Summarize the benefits of a dedicated UR team to promote compliance with the CoP Facilitate the development of a contemporary UR committee Assess an organization's opportunities to improve processes to benefit patient care and hospital success Recommend compliant language for the organization's UR plan Construct commercial contract language, in collaboration with the organization's contract manager, that promotes a partnership to ensure appropriate use of acute care resources Seek out operational resources to perform high-quality reviews that fully comply with the CoP Explain the connection between a good utilization review plan and the hospital revenue cycle initiatives
Download or read book The Children s Hospital Guide To Your Child s Health And Development written by Children's Hospital and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the research and clinical experience of America's leading children's hospital, this reference work, several years in the making, is the most complete and authoritative guide to child health and development ever published. Three essential parts form this unique work: a detailed account of all aspects of normal development from birth through the school years, a carefully designed emergency section, and a comprehensive guide to every common illness or condition that affects children.For the first time, a single work offers parents all the medical, psychological, and practical information they need to raise healthy children from birth through elementary school. Packed full of information on symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, vital, up-to-date advice for choosing medical care and insurance, and finding good childcare, the Children's Hospital Guide includes the charts of normal development at all ages, and a comprehensive resource section.
Download or read book How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive written by Sheldon Paul Blau and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Sheldon Blau almost died after undergoing open-heart surgery—not from the surgery or heart disease, but from infectious bacteria introduced during surgery. His in-hospital experiences made him a better doctor, and inspired him to write How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive. The book describes the role of each member of the medical team, shows patients how to become active, effective members of that team, and offers concrete advice about ways to avoid the most common hospital-related errors. Ten Things You Can Do to Get Out of the Hospital Alive • Make sure all your known allergies are clearly marked on your chart, wrist band, or on a piece of paper taped above your bed. • Mark the area of your body to be operated on with a felt-tip pen. • Never eat or drink anything before surgery, even if the nurse brings you a food tray. • Tell your anesthesiologist if you're on any type of medication. • Have a reliable advocate with you as often as possible throughout your hospital stay. • Write your name prominently on a piece of paper and tape it to the wall above your bed. • Always ask the nurse to check the name and dosage of any medication he or she is about to give you. • Don't let anyone bully you. • Don't hesitate to get a second—or third—opinion. • Trust your instincts.
Download or read book The Hospital Executive s Guide to Physician Staffing written by Hugo J. Finarelli (Jr.) and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing Hugo J. Finarelli, Jr., PhD How many physicians make a health system? The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing helps hospital CEOs answer a question that healthcare analysts and policymakers have debated for nearly 30 years: How many physicians do you need? The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing challenges accepted beliefs and practices about the science of physician staffing. Insightful and data-rich, this unique resource guides hospital executives in creating a staffing model for physician services by outlining proven strategies for determining community physician need and fulfilling those needs appropriately. This timely and informative book presents practical approaches for engaging different types of physicians--the hospital dependent, hospital independent, and full-time office-based--in various markets, including those facing a shortage and rural communities. Complete with benchmarking tables and other resources, The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing includes sections on: Physician supply and demand--a macro view Assessing physician need Measuring physician contribution How many physicians make a health system Recruitment and retention strategies The executive's role in recruitment Planning for an uncertain future Build a quality organization, and the doctors will come Central to the underlying philosophy of the book is the notion that hospitals must "attract the best by being the best" and includes strategies executives can use in achieving that goal. Who will benefit from this book? Hospital CEO President CFO COO Medical staff director Director of physician relations Praise for this book "The Hospital Executive's Guide to Physician Staffing is a valuable resource for any hospital facing the difficult task of determining the right number and mix of physicians." --Jerry Senne, President, Holmes Regional Medical Center "...effective tool kit for any planning executive trying to meet their organization's goals or community's needs with successful physician strategies...It is a must read for those interested in exceptional accuracy in their forecasting, and those treading into physician supply and demand metrics where the ultimate recommendations will be a future P & L you need to defend." --Elizabeth Jaekle, Vice President, Business Development, Crozer-Keystone Health System "I recommend this book for all healthcare executives who are planning for the future." --Walter H. Ettinger, MD, MBA, President, UMass Memorial Medical Center and Associate Vice Provost Clinical and Population Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Download or read book Hospital Operations written by Wallace J. Hopp and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hospital Operations, two leading Operations Management experts and five practicing clinicians demonstrate how to apply new OM advances and metrics to substantially improve any hospital's performance. Replete with examples, Hospital Operations shows how to generate principles-driven breakthrough ideas to systematically improve emergency departments, operating rooms, nursing unites, and diagnostic units." -- Back cover
Download or read book How to Stay Out of the Hospital written by Lila Anastas and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GT MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE TE written by Katherine G. Stephens and published by Association for Hospital Medical Education. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition of the Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital provides an overview of topics across the medical education continuum that impact hospital medical education. With 43 chapters, the Guide is both a primer for the day-to-day challenges of delivering quality medical education and meeting accreditation standards, and an overview of the current status and the future of medical education in the teaching hospitals. Authors include thought leaders from the ACGME, ACCME, and the AAMC, along with many other contributors from key medical education organizations and professionals in the field.
Download or read book The Hospital Visit written by Michael L. Kirkindoll and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with student pastors and pastors in the early years of their ministries in mind, this book explores the key situations all pastors encounter in hospital visitation. Beginning with the idea that pastoral care in the hospital setting consists of a "trialogue" between pastor, patient, and presence of God, the author explains the pastor's role in terms of six principal relationships.
Download or read book The Informed Patient written by Karen A. Friedman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone who will experience a hospital stay—or friends or family who may be in charge of a patient’s care—will find all the help and advice they could need in the detailed sections that cover every aspect of what they can expect. Karen A. Friedman, MD, and Sara L. Merwin, MPH, offer hands-on advice about how patients, health care providers, and medical staff can work together to achieve good outcomes. Through anecdotes, tips, sidebars, and clinical scenario vignettes, The Informed Patient presents ways to enhance and optimize a hospital stay, from practical advice on obtaining the best care to dealing with the emotional experience of being in the hospital.
Download or read book Little Black Book of Hospital Medicine written by Andrew J. Dionne and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Black Book of Hospital Medicine provides practical, concise evidence-based information on the diagnosis and treatment across the spectrum of illness and injury in the hospital setting. This book features a simple, accessible template for each subject, and quick and easy references to the relevant literature. The Little Black Book of Hospital Medicine is a convenient resource offering instant access to vital information and is the ideal resource for today’s hospitalist.
Download or read book Hospital Book Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Children s Hospital written by Chris Adrian and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.
Download or read book Hospital Architecture written by David R. Porter and published by Aupha Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has attempted to devise a common language for hospital planning, programming, architecture, engineering and construction. A complete hospital project should be based upon a series of clear tasks and a straightforward schedule that is understood by the hospital, consultant, architect, engineer and contractor. An important feature of this book is the presentation of operational programming ratios. The use fo these ratios as a basis for sizing hospital department would give all of us a common method of re- viewing hospital utilization. Enormous differences in size, ranging from 600 to 1,200 gross square feet per bed, of hospitals in the same community should not exist. A baseline measurement is needed for all hospitals in order to assure quality space for the patient and to contain excessive facility cost based upon department wish- lists.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Hospital Dentistry written by George K Varghese and published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is organized into management jurisprudence and in- patients clinical care in the hospital. It provides most comprehensive information on intensive care equipment. It explains the close integration of the managerial principles and clinical applications of equipment. This is a complete and highly practical one-stop reference on the latesthospital dentistry making it necessary reading for all house surgeons. All the aspects and concepts of dental care, as also the plastic, ENT, neuro and general surgery associated with it are adequately explained. This book explains how with the advances made in modern diagnostic and therapeutic dentistry as well as in maxillofacial surgery the scope of hospital dental practice has widened. Since the dental and maxillofacial surgery is inevitably part of the trauma, head, neck and aesthetic surgery, therefore dental surgeons need to be upto- date with knowledge about in patient management.
