The Changing Role of the Hospital in European Health Systems

ISBN-13: 9781108790055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Martin McKee; Sherry Merkur; Nigel Edwards

Opis

Hospitals must change in the face of changing technologies and patient needs. This book is for anyone who works in a hospital, giving them the evidence they need to call for change, and for policy makers and planners charged with designing and operating hospitals now and in the future.

Recenzje

Recent experience shows that advances in medical and information technology, far from making hospitals obsolete, increase our dependence on them and they are here to stay. While the conclusion of this  thoughtful volume is that it is impossible to know what the hospitals of the future will look like, the authors nonetheless highlight the main societal and technological influences that will shape them.  Those responsible for our future planning, if their crystal ball is hazy, could do no better than consult this lucid account of these key factors. Sir Ian Gilmore, Director, Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research

Spis treści

Part I: 1. Introduction: The changing nature of care provided in the hospital Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards and Ellen Nolte; 2. The challenges of adapting hospital care for children Jochen Ehrich, Massimo Pettoello-Mantovan, Eleanor Molloy, Reinhold Kerbl, Mehmet Vural, Simon Lenton, Stefano del Torso, Adamos Hadjipanayis, Björn Wettergren and Zachi Grossman; 3. Patients with stroke Benjamin Bray, Anthony Rudd, Phil White, Bo Norrving and Charles Wolfe; 4. Meeting the needs of frail older patients Sherena Nair, David Oliver and Alison Cracknell; 5. Oncological hospital care Anke Wind, Wim van Harten, Sigbjørn Smeland, Lucia da Pieve and Wim Groen; Part II: 6. COPD as an exemplar of a chronic health condition C. Michael Roberts, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos and Robab Breyer-Kohansal; 7. Emergency medicine Matthew Cooke, Clifford Mann and Nigel Edwards; 8. Advances in perioperative medicine Marc Wittenberg, Harry Thirkettle and Michael Grocott; 9. Advances in imaging Peter Cavanagh; 10. Advances in laboratory medicine Rachael Liebmann and Digby Ingle; 11. Conclusions: Challenges for hospitals of the future Martin McKee, Sherry Merkur, Nigel Edwards and Ellen Nolte.