Download or read book Kucers The Use of Antibiotics written by M. Lindsay Grayson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 4894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kucers’ The Use of Antibiotics is the definitive, internationally-authored reference, providing everything that the infectious diseases specialist and prescriber needs to know about antimicrobials in this vast and rapidly developing field. The much-expanded Seventh Edition comprises 4800 pages in 3 volumes in order to cover all new and existing therapies, and emerging drugs not yet fully licensed. Concentrating on the treatment of infectious diseases, the content is divided into four sections - antibiotics, anti-fungal drugs, anti-parasitic drugs, and anti-viral drugs - and is highly structured for ease of reference. Each chapter is organized in a consistent format, covering susceptibility, formulations and dosing (adult and pediatric), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, toxicity, and drug distribution, with detailed discussion regarding clinical uses - a feature unique to this title. Compiled by an expanded team of internationally renowned and respected editors, with expert contributors representing Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, the US, and Canada, the Seventh Edition adopts a truly global approach. It remains invaluable for anyone using antimicrobial agents in their clinical practice and provides, in a systematic and concise manner, all the information required when prescribing an antimicrobial to treat infection.

Download or read book Evidence Based Public Health written by Ross C. Brownson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are at least three ways in which a public health program or policy may not reach stated goals for success: 1) Choosing an intervention approach whose effectiveness is not established in the scientific literature; 2) Selecting a potentially effective program or policy yet achieving only weak, incomplete implementation or "reach," thereby failing to attain objectives; 3) Conducting an inadequate or incorrect evaluation that results in a lack of generalizable knowledge on the effectiveness of a program or policy; and 4) Paying inadequate attention to adapting an intervention to the population and context of interest To enhance evidence-based practice, this book addresses all four possibilities and attempts to provide practical guidance on how to choose, carry out, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies in public health settings. It also begins to address a fifth, overarching need for a highly trained public health workforce. This book deals not only with finding and using scientific evidence, but also with implementation and evaluation of interventions that generate new evidence on effectiveness. Because all these topics are broad and require multi-disciplinary skills and perspectives, each chapter covers the basic issues and provides multiple examples to illustrate important concepts. In addition, each chapter provides links to the diverse literature and selected websites for readers wanting more detailed information. An indispensable volume for professionals, students, and researchers in the public health sciences and preventative medicine, this new and updated edition of Evidence-Based Public Health aims to bridge research and evidence with policies and the practice of public health.

Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.

Download or read book Epidemiology and Biostatistics written by Tongzhang Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents written by James Reason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book presents a set of common principles to further our knowledge of the causes of major accidents in a wide variety of high-technology systems. It also describes tools and techniques for managing the risks of such organizational accidents that go beyond those currently available to system managers and safety professionals. James Reason deals comprehensively with the prevention of major accidents arising from human and organizational causes. He argues that the same general principles and management techniques are appropriate for many different domains. These include banks and insurance companies just as much as nuclear power plants, oil exploration and production companies, chemical process installations and air, sea and rail transport. Its unique combination of principles and practicalities make this seminal book essential reading for all whose daily business is to manage, audit and regulate hazardous technologies of all kinds. It is relevant to those concerned with understanding and controlling human and organizational factors and will also interest academic readers and those working in industrial and government agencies.

Download or read book Welfare Space written by Stefano Munarin and published by List. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of two parts. In the first we attempt to define the concept of "welfare space", discussing the current state of the concept. In the second instead, we analyze the spatial results of the welfare policies that have been enacted in the Venet

Download or read book Introduction to Dialysis written by Martin G. Cogan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to understanding the principles and practice of dialysis which considers the theoretical and practical aspects of haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis therapy and takes into account the surge in implementation of high-flux dialysis.

Download or read book The Connectivist written by Claudio Ronco and published by AARVI Onlus. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his second book, the author of Carpediem tells us about his studies, his passions, his research and hisinventions. The Connectivist (Il Connettivista) is Claudio Ronco's personal story. It is the incredible journey of a doctor/scientist/humanist who thinks outside the box.

Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine

Download or read book An Organisation with a Memory written by Departm Chief Medical Officer of Health and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of clinical governance gives National Health Service organisations a powerful incentive to focus on serious failures in health care. This report reviews what is known about the scale and nature of these failures, examining the extent to which the NHS has the capacity to learn from them when they do occur, and recommending measures which could help to minimise the likelihood of repeated failures in service in the future. Information was drawn from industry, aviation and academic research.

Download or read book Managing the Unexpected written by Karl E. Weick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of Managing the Unexpected was published in 2001, the unexpected has become a growing part of our everyday lives. The unexpected is often dramatic, as with hurricanes or terrorist attacks. But the unexpected can also come in more subtle forms, such as a small organizational lapse that leads to a major blunder, or an unexamined assumption that costs lives in a crisis. Why are some organizations better able than others to maintain function and structure in the face of unanticipated change? Authors Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe answer this question by pointing to high reliability organizations (HROs), such as emergency rooms in hospitals, flight operations of aircraft carriers, and firefighting units, as models to follow. These organizations have developed ways of acting and styles of learning that enable them to manage the unexpected better than other organizations. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the groundbreaking book Managing the Unexpected uses HROs as a template for any institution that wants to better organize for high reliability.

Download or read book Il governo delle aziende sanitarie ed ospedaliere Problematiche di programmazione rendicondazione e controllo written by Jannelli and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2014 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approccio sistemico e co creazione di valore in sanit written by Francesco Caputo and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La crescente attenzione alla razionalizzazione delle risorse e la sempre più spinta rilevanza attribuita alle variabili economico-aziendali rischia di compromettere la dimensione relazionale in sanità. L’incapacità dei tradizionali modelli di management di rispondere alle esigenze di un’utenza variegata i cui bisogni vanno oltre, e talvolta sono in contrasto, con le esigenze di contenimento della spesa in sanità è sempre più evidente. All’economista di impresa è richiesto di andare oltre gli aspetti tecnici di gestione per indagare le dimensioni cognitive e relazionali che influenzano il rapporto tra azienda sanitaria e utenza al fine di sviluppare nuovi modelli di management capaci di favorire l’armonizzazione tra prospettive divergenti. In tale cornice, la stesura adotta le lenti interpretative offerte dall’Approccio Sistemico Vitale e dalla Service Dominant Logic per indagare le condizioni di efficacia relazionale e di performance nelle aziende sanitarie al fine di chiarire cause e implicazioni delle condizioni di dissonanza cognitiva e di sviluppare modelli di management utili alla definizione di percorsi per la co-creazione di valore in sanità. Il modello proposto offre l’opportunità di rileggere le condizioni relazionali in sanità favorendo tanto i ricercatori tanto gli operatori di settore nel definire possibili percorsi di armonizzazione delle finalità e dei comportamenti individuali con l’obiettivo di assicurare l’emersione delle condizioni necessarie per la co-creazione di valore in sanità.

Download or read book L interdipendenza tra public governance e accountability nelle aziende ospedaliero universitarie written by Carla Del Gesso and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2018-04-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 374.3

Download or read book Misurare per governare le aziende sanitarie written by Francesca Lecci and published by EGEA spa. This book was released on 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume affronta il tema della misurazione e valutazione delle performance nelle aziende sanitarie italiane, approfondendo caratteristiche, finalità e potenzialità del Cruscotto Direzionale Multidimensionale (CDM) sviluppato nell’ambito della Academy of Health Care Management and Economics Bocconi – Novartis. Il CDM è stato progettato per l’Alta Direzione delle aziende sanitarie, attorno a tre quadri di indicatori diversi e complementari tra loro: uno per le esigenze di governo e monitoraggio delle dinamiche strategiche e gestionali dell’azienda nel complesso, uno specifico per il governo clinico e uno disegnato per gli scopi della rendicontazione esterna ai principali portatori d’interesse. Il libro ripercorre il percorso di definizione del modello di CDM, la sua implementazione in un panel di aziende ospedaliere e i principali risultati ottenuti; nello specifico: il percorso e i motivi che hanno portato alla definizione del progetto Academy dedicato al performance management delle aziende sanitarie (capitolo 1); la declinazione del Cruscotto Direzionale Multidimensionale, le sue finalità e il potenziale informativo dello strumento (capitolo 2); la definizione di un modello di Cruscotto per il Governo Clinico a presidio delle principali aree di attività sanitarie e di interesse delle Direzioni Sanitarie e Mediche di Presidio (capitolo 3); la formulazione di una proposta di Cruscotto per la Rendicontazione Sociale per i principali stakeholder dell’azienda ospedaliera (capitolo 4); le principali criticità legate all’implementazione di sistemi di misurazione delle performance e i possibili sviluppi futuri del processo di diffusione e implementazione del CDM e più in generale del progetto Academy (capitolo 5). Il libro è il frutto di un percorso durato oltre quattro anni con il coinvolgimento dei professionisti e del top management delle aziende ospedaliere partecipanti al progetto Academy of Health Care Management and Economics di SDA Bocconi, CeRGAS e Novartis Italia. L’Academy of Health Care Management and Economics è una partnership strategica tra SDA Bocconi School of Managment, CeRGAS dell’Università Bocconi e Novartis Italia che si propone sul panorama nazionale come laboratorio d’innovazione manageriale per le Aziende Sanitarie Pubbliche. Tra il 2010 e il 2015 un gruppo di Aziende Sanitarie Pubbliche rappresentative del panorama sanitario nazionale sono state coinvolte in attività di ricerca e formazione che hanno permesso al top management, ai professionisti sanitari e amministrativi di confrontarsi sui temi della strategia, del controllo e della valutazione delle performance.

Download or read book Valore e sanit written by Tiziana Stobbione and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2017-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1531.7

Download or read book Una nuova governance per la sanit written by AA. VV. and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2019-03-20T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 366.133