Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Practice Management & Reimbursement

The objective of this book is to provide practical and nuanced advice doctors can use to make better financial and business decisions for themselves and their families. Ultimately, this book aims to help level the financial playing field for medical practitioners and their loved ones. The content was prepared for doctors - in collaboration with doctors. The author comes from a medical family and is a financial risk management expert.

Was ist meine Praxis eigentlich wert? Die Antwort auf diese Frage erscheint einerseits trivial und ist andererseits doch extrem komplex. In diesem Buch wird das Thema der Praxiswertermittlung im Hinblick auf die praktische Anwendung, aber auf der Grundlage solider bewertungstheoretischer Hintergrunde vermittelt. Die Frage nach dem Wert der Praxis stellt sich im Berufsleben der meisten Arzte mehrmals, unter anderem beim Kauf oder Verkauf und gegebenenfalls auch bei der Trennung von Praxis- oder Ehepartnern. Tatsachlich gibt es viele Unsicherheiten bei der Bearbeitung dieses Themas sowohl...

This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding depth and meaning to a clinicians' work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives.

Hospital medicine has expanded beyond the practice of internal medicine to co-manage patients in the fields of orthopedics, neurosurgery and general surgery. This concise guide covers the evolution and expanding scope of hospital medicine and the variety of clinical, ethical and administrative situations a Hospitalist encounters. 500 questions on inpatient care, co-management of patients and hospital system management are provided with the goal of assessing clinical and academic competency. Questions feature actual cases with evidence-based solutions. Useful to physicians, house staff and...

This book explores a rapidly growing area of discussion in the health care industry, disruptive behavior in medical providers. The presence of disruptive behavior adversely impacts the providers of all disciplines: paraprofessional personnel, nurses, physicians and administrators. But more importantly, there may be a greater detrimental effect on quality and patient safety. This has led to mandated regulatory requirements that assist healthcare institutions in developing programs to address the problem. The book presents an evidence-based analysis of the disruptive provider behavior that...

Following up on Mindful Medical Practice, this book describes in detail how mindfulness is being taught to medical students, residents, practicing physicians, and allied health care professionals. Steps to set up and integrate programs into curricula are featured and educators questions concerning practical aspects of doing this work are addressed. The argument on how to promote the kinds of leadership and cultural changes necessary are also discussed along with the many challenges facing health professionals in multiple settings. Mindful Medical Practitioners is an...

This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare industry in times of great uncertainty. Written for senior healthcare leaders, it will provide new tools, processes, examples and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems. Specifically, leaders will be able to answer the following questions:

Why change? What has led us to today, and what is the current situation in healthcare?

What to change? What areas for change are most promising areas with the greatest potential to yield...

This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have worked as many as 30 years or more at the bedside. The narratives are organized around such themes as: how and why these physicians entered the discipline of critical care; what was critical care like in the beginning; how they have experienced the flood of innovations in critical care; why...

Dieses essential liefert alle Informationen, die fur die sichere Vorbereitung und Durchfuhrung von Intrahospitaltransporten erforderlich sind. Innerklinische Patiententransfers sind elementare Bestandteile der stationaren Behandlung. Dennoch wird ihre Brisanz selten richtig und umfassend wahrgenommen. Moderne Kliniken bieten ein vielfaltiges und differenziertes Spektrum an diagnostischen und therapeutischen Massnahmen, die oft in spezialisierten Einrichtungen durchgefuhrt werden mussen. Hierzu mussen Patienten unter Fortfuhrung der erforderlichen Uberwachung und Behandlung innerhalb der...

This case studies book is a unique, practical, cutting-edge, and indispensable go-to resource for front-line practitioners and educators in medicine. Each case study (chapter) is framed by a set of introductory learning objectives, an evaluation section, thought-provoking discussion questions, and references to further readings. Furthermore, the book is conveniently organized along the continuum of medical care delivery, providing quick access to ad-hoc solutions in safety- and quality-compromised situations, illustrating how skillful communication can be the key to a more effective...