Hospital Administration Care category: 168 books
The Doctor Crisis
How Physicians Can, and Must, Lead the Way to Better Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Calming fears, alleviating suffering, enhancing and saving lives-this is what motivates doctors virtually every single day. When the structure and culture in which physicians work are well aligned, being a doctor is a most rewarding job. But something has gone wrong in the physician world, and it...
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....
Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating...
Intensive Care in Neurology and Neurosurgery
Pathophysiological Basis for the Management of Acute Cerebral Injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume presents the work of a group of international experts in neurocritical care. This book provides the physician with a quick and practical tool for consultation and it’s dedicated to brain-injured and neurocritically ill patients and provides the physician with a quick and practical tool...
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...
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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...
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;...
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced...
Health Information Technology Evaluation Handbook
From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies. This is being done with the expectation that HIT adoption will translate into healthier patients experiencing better care at lower cost. As the first wave of adoption comes to an end, stakeholders...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Over the decades, the fields of health information systems and informatics have seen rapid growth. Such integrative efforts within the two disciplines have resulted in emerging innovations within the realm of medicine and healthcare. The Handbook of Research on Emerging Perspectives on Healthcare...
Malpractice
A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many...
Becoming an Effective Leader in Healthcare Management, Second Edition
The 12 Essential Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Administrators and managers in healthcare can improve their own expertise and performance by learning and mastering the 12 critical interpersonal, financial, and organizational management skills in this highly practical guide. This easy-to-read book applies basic business leadership principles specifically...