Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Dictionaries & Terminology

As a general introduction to the SNOMED CT clinical terminology code system, the book explains in simple terms a wealth of key aspects, including the fundamentals of SNOMED CT, the various ways in which it can be used, and the methods by which it may quickly be deployed for use within an electronic documentation system that deals with clinical and clinics-related data. Further considerations include how end users can employ the system, how healthcare IT designers and developers can build highly ergonomic systems, and how health informatics experts and clinical analysts can successfully...

The proven concept of the first edition has been continued in the second edition

Including many new entries and completely revised

A trilingual dictionary with more than 4300 entries
Offering an indispensable vocabulary of basic medical terminology
For physicians, medical students and everybody connected with the medical profession
Contains important expressions and phrases, essential for professional success in foreign countries
Enabling communication with patients of different nationalities as well as medical report writing in foreign languages
Acknowledges...

Implementing Change in Health Systems brings fresh thinking and evidence to the continuing debate about market reforms of health care and other public services. The book examines the development and implementation of national cost-containment programs and health system reorganizations in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands -- countries that have been leaders in health system reform.

The book provides a new framework for analyzing public policy implementation and system change, synthesizing diverse streams of academic research and thinking. It explores the processes...

The dictionary contains more than 28,000 main entries and many subentries: (a) medical terms used outside the medical community, including colloquial usage; (b) technical medical terms in current use in clinical practice...