Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Practice Management & Reimbursement

In recent years, with the advances in surgical medicine, surgical techniques have undergone great changes. However, safety and reliability are still the major requirements of the operating room, and these are closely linked to the patients’ wellbeing. The new medical instruments and medical materials being developed to perform surgery more safely, reliably and efficiently are vital technologies supporting this. “New techniques” involve the introduction...

In recent years, improving efficiency in healthcare facilities in general, and in hospitals specifically, has become increasingly important. This book provides essential information on the powerful performance results that can be achieved when patient-centered efficiency reforms are implemented within health management systems. Created for departmental and institutional healthcare professionals, this book offers intuitive guidelines, technical tools, and work procedures to comprehensively analyze all aspects of current operations and reconfigure assets in pursuit of serving more patients,...

This book is a one-stop resource on all the critical aspects of planning and designing hospitals, one of the most complex healthcare projects to undertake.

A well-planned and designed hospital should control infection rate, provide safety to patients, caregivers and visitors, help improve patients' recovery and have scope for future expansion and change. Reinforcing these basic principles, guidance on such effective planning and designing is the key focus. Readers are offered insights into eliminating shortcomings at every stage of setting up a hospital which may not be feasible...

This book provides an update on recent clinical practice and an in-depth view of selected topics relevant to hospital medicine.  It is divided into four sections that explore clinical, administrative, systems and ethical issues.  Each section places an emphasis on the opportunities, challenges and potential directions of this bourgeoning subspecialty.  

This new edition expands on topics covered in the previous edition, including the COVID-19 pandemic, racial disparities in healthcare delivery and providers, and pediatric hospital medicine. Other chapters...

Leitende Ärzte müssen neben dem fachlichen Know-How immer häufiger Führungskompetenzen zeigen, Mitarbeiter motivieren und Impulse setzen. Dieses Buch gibt mit wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aus Betriebswirtschaft und Psychologie Lösungsstrategien und Praxisempfehlungen an die Hand. Gut umsetzbar werden diese durch Checklisten, Kopiervorlagen für Mitarbeitergespräche, Tests für Situationstransparenz sowie den Abgleich von Selbst- und Fremdbild. Kurz-Interviews mit Führungskräften aus dem Kliniksektor und den Verbänden zeigen Lösungsstrategien auf.