Patient Care category: 3822 books
Health informatics
Improving patient care
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Health informatics (HI) and technology play a major role in health care including empowering patients, shortening waiting lists and improving treatment efficiency. This ebook contains a range of material by HI experts on the latest developments. It includes articles on robotic surgery, on how technology...
by Susan S. Lang, Richard B. Patt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
Most cancer patients fear unremitting pain more than the prospect of an untimely death, and are surprised to learn that most of the pain and related symptoms of cancer can be successfully addressed by an informed patient working with a determined health care team. Thoroughly updating their widely...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness and cough are common in patients with advancing and incurable disease. For example, cancer, chronic cardiac and pulmonary disease, progressive neuromuscular disorders and degenerative disorders all give rise to varying degrees of respiratory distress which...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Explorations in Family Nursing examines a systemic approach to care which can be applied both in hospital and community settings. Working collaboratively with the family, the nurse is able to strengthen the level of care available to the patient and promote the health and well-being of the whole family.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Recent literature suggests that patient participation and engagement may be the ideal solution to the efficacy of healthcare treatments, from a clinical and pragmatic view. Despite the growing discussions on the necessity of patient engagement, there is no set of universally endorsed, concrete guidelines...
Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Clinical, Legal, and Patient Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Because of the individual and varying symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, medical guidelines encompassing the needs of every patient simply do not exist. Through proven research and recommendations for future treatment, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical, Legal, and Patient Perspectives...
by Kathryn F. Weymouth PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Many times you will hear people say that they dont fear death but they do fear what they may have to endure before they reach that final passage. Relying on medical interventions and pharmaceuticals alone often does not bring the peaceful death that people hope for, but by integrating complementary...
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...
How to Talk to Your Doctor
Getting the Answers and Care You Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Showing patients how to take control of their own health care, this guide reveals how to navigate the maze of prescriptions and tests and offers advice for those who act as medical advocates for their children, aging parents, or others.
The Familiar Physician
Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It’s a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction....
Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients
Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses face daunting communication challenges. Patients and family members can react to difficult news with sadness, distress, anger, or denial. This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening...
The Dying Process
Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.
Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology...
The New Consultation
Developing doctor-patient communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
The Consultation, published almost 20 years ago by the same authors, has been completely rewritten. The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and to help to make them more patient-centred. It includes theoretical...
Evidence-Informed Nursing
A Guide for Clinical Nurses
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This introductory text to evidence-based practice provides nurses and other health professionals with a clear idea of why they should use research information as a basis for high-quality patient care and how they should use that information in the clinical setting. In a logical progression which helps...