Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
ISBN: 9780309064989 / Angielski / Twarda / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers....Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that ... |
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261,37 zł |
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780309072809 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care provi... |
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389,38 zł |
Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780387236841 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been focused on the threat of b- logical warfare and bioterrorism. Biological warfare agents are de?ned as living org- isms, whatever their nature, or infected material derived from them, which are used for h- tile purposes and intended to cause disease or death in man, animals and plants, and depend for their efforts on the ability to multiply in person, animal or plant attacked. Biological warfare agents may be well suited for bioterrorism to...
Since the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 and subsequent cases of anthrax in Florida and New York City, attention has been...
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780,00 zł |
Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780387242910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach is a textbook designed to reflect the principles and current practice of oncology with contributors from the fields of medical, surgical, and radiation oncology. The textbook will incorporate an evidence-based approach, enabling the reader to make decisions on the basis of concrete data. Sections on solid tumors, hematologic malignancies and the practice of oncology address the natural history and therapy for the full spectrum of neoplastic diseases in the adult. Further sections present fundamentals of supportive care of the cancer patient, the management...
Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach is a textbook designed to reflect the principles and current practice of oncology with contributors from the fiel...
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780,00 zł |
Handbook of Population
ISBN: 9780387257020 / Angielski / Miękka / 936 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completion of this Handbook would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated assistance of numerous people. Several years ago Howard Kaplan, Editor of the Kluwer/Plenum Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, asked Dudley Poston to edit a Handbook of Population. Poston then asked his long-time collaborator and fellow demographer, Michael Micklin, to join him as co-editor. Poston and Micklin next assembled a list of chapter topics and possible authors. We endeavored to shape the contributions to the Handbook in two ways: We wished to parallel in many ways the outline of The...
Completion of this Handbook would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated assistance of numerous people. Several years ago Howard Ka...
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428,99 zł |
Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention
ISBN: 9780387259246 / Angielski / Twarda / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive manual details injury and violence interventions that have proven to work effectively with vulnerable populations across all stages of life. It will benefit practitioners who manage, implement, or evaluate injury or violence prevention programs; policymakers who influence injury or violence prevention through legislation and other policies; university faculty who teach coursework in injury and violence prevention; and graduate students preparing to work in or with injury or violence prevention programs. The Handbook on Injury and Violence Prevention is a must... This comprehensive manual details injury and violence interventions that have proven to work effectively with vulnerable populations across al... |
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389,98 zł |
Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Fundamentals for Investigators
ISBN: 9780387277813 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Fundamentals for Investigators introduces the investigator and statistician to monitoring procedures in clinical research. Clearly presenting the necessary background with limited use of mathematics, this book increases the knowledge, experience, and intuition of investigations in the use of these important procedures now required by the many clinical research efforts. The author provides motivated clinical investigators the background, correct use, and interpretation of these monitoring procedures at an elementary statistical level. He... Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Fundamentals for Investigators introduces the investigator and statistician to monitoring procedures in ... |
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194,97 zł |
Optimizing Health: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery
ISBN: 9780387339207 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As health care costs soar there is increasing interest in examining what society and, particularly, patients receive in return for these expenditures. Optimizing Health brings together the best thinking from both sides of the Atlantic to explore these issues. It employs disciplinary perspectives from economics, ethics, philosophy, psychology, clinical practice, and epidemiology to explore various ways that value for patients have and can be determined. It concludes with a discussion of changes required in practice, research, and health care systems to maximize the outcomes... As health care costs soar there is increasing interest in examining what society and, particularly, patients receive in return for these expenditur... |
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194,97 zł |
Handhelds in Medicine: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
ISBN: 9780387403298 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wanted to calculate the predicted peak flow for one of your asthmatic patients without spending valuable minutes searching for that confounded little slide rule gizmo? Wouldn t it be great if you could somehow remember all Mrs. Jones medications when the nursing home calls to see if it s OK to treat her acutely elevated blood pressure with some atenolol? Handheld computers are emerging as the stethoscopes of the twenty-first century, and no clinician should be without this essential tool. These small, easy-to-use devices are now powerful enough to help clinicians... Have you ever wanted to calculate the predicted peak flow for one of your asthmatic patients without spending valuable minutes searching for that c... |
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194,97 zł |
Cancer Informatics in the Post Genomic Era: Toward Information-Based Medicine
ISBN: 9780387693200 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cancer Informatics in Post-Genomic Era provides both the necessary methodology and practical information tools for analyzing data in the field of medical information science. This, of course, requires analytic tools. Those tools are garnered by developing and assessing methods and systems for the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of patient data, aided by scientific discovery. Key challenges in this field include integrating research and clinical care, sharing data, and establishing partnerships within and across sectors of patient diagnosis and treatment.
Cancer Informatics in Post-Genomic Era provides both the necessary methodology and practical information tools for analyzing data in the field of medi...
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585,00 zł |
Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780387727127 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Depression and Globalisation is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalisation and depression. In this text Dr. Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health. Overall, this book will accomplish the task of how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of mental illness but influence the extent...
Depression and Globalisation is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalisation...
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194,97 zł |
Medical Data Management: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780387951591 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical Data Management is a systematic introduction to the basic methodology of professional clinical data management. It emphasizes generic methods of medical documentation applicable to such diverse tasks as the electronic patient record, maintaining a clinical trials database, and building a tumor registry. This book is for all students in medical informatics and health information management, and it is ideal for both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. The book also guides professionals in the design and use of clinical information systems in various health care settings. It is an...
Medical Data Management is a systematic introduction to the basic methodology of professional clinical data management. It emphasizes generic methods ...
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311,98 zł |
Clinical Information Systems: A Component-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780387955384 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in the series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to...
This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in ...
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389,98 zł |
Medical Data Management: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780387955940 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical Data Management is a systematic introduction to the basic methodology of professional clinical data management. It emphasizes generic methods of medical documentation applicable to such diverse tasks as the electronic patient record, maintaining a clinical trials database, and building a tumor registry. This book is for all students in medical informatics and health information management, and it is ideal for both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. The book also guides professionals in the design and use of clinical information systems in various health care settings. It is an...
Medical Data Management is a systematic introduction to the basic methodology of professional clinical data management. It emphasizes generic methods ...
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389,98 zł |
Income Redistribution and Social Security: An Application of Microsimulation
ISBN: 9780412570902 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book studies the redistribution impact of social security schemes on income distribution. A detailed model is derived from the particular example of the Netherlands, but the findings have significant implications for all those concerned with social security systems and their political and economic role.
This book studies the redistribution impact of social security schemes on income distribution. A detailed model is derived from the particular example...
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780,00 zł |
Health Professions and the State in Europe
ISBN: 9780415106306 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many professions today are in a state of transition, with changes being imposed on them by governments and other agencies. Focusing on this theme of change Health Professions and the State in Europe explains and illuminates the specific relationship between health professions and the state. The editors and contributors, all experts in the field, present an overview of the current situation in eight different countries in Europe, covering such topical issues as the impact on the health professions of market policies, performance and quality measures, and challenges to professional...
Many professions today are in a state of transition, with changes being imposed on them by governments and other agencies. Focusing on this theme of c...
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248,25 zł |
Health Professions and the State in Europe
ISBN: 9780415106313 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many professions today are in a state of transition, with changes being imposed on them by governments and other agencies. Focusing on this theme of change Health Professions and the State in Europe explains and illuminates the specific relationship between health professions and the state. The editors and contributors, all experts in the field, present an overview of the current situation in eight different countries in Europe, covering such topical issues as the impact on the health professions of market policies, performance and quality measures, and challenges to professional...
Many professions today are in a state of transition, with changes being imposed on them by governments and other agencies. Focusing on this theme of c...
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101,29 zł |
The Selection and Use of Contract Research Organizations
ISBN: 9780415299039 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choosing the right contract research organization (CRO) can make the difference between getting a product to market quickly and cost-effectively, and wasting valuable time and money. The myriad of CROs out there is increasing all the time, all making impressive claims. How do you pick the right one for your project? This guide for personnel in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to making this important decision covers: guidance for selection, protocol and contract development, project management and monitoring of work; common pitfalls and problems - how to avoid them and how to...
Choosing the right contract research organization (CRO) can make the difference between getting a product to market quickly and cost-effectively, and ...
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248,25 zł |
Leading Change in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9780415305457 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning is at the heart of change. This book breaks new ground in exploring the need for individuals to engage in personal change, through learning, as an essential part of achieving significant change in organisations. It explains how to engage with people's energy, enthusiasm and abilities to enable them to think and do things differently.
Providing an overview of leadership theories and a practical guide to management tools and techniques, Leading Change in Health and Social Care is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from health and social care settings. Key topics... Learning is at the heart of change. This book breaks new ground in exploring the need for individuals to engage in personal change, through learning, ...
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886,78 zł |
Innovations in Healthcare Design: Selected Presentations from the First Five Symposia on Healthcare Design
ISBN: 9780471286370 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a selective, revised and annotated compendium of the best presentations at the prestigious National Symposium on Healthcare Design. It includes a major introduction by Wayne Ruga, the guru of international healthcare facilities design, as well as chapters on medical offices, new technologies, healing environments, and acute, long-term, ambulatory, and pediatric facilities.
This book is a selective, revised and annotated compendium of the best presentations at the prestigious National Symposium on Healthcare Design. It in...
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586,48 zł |