An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care

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An introduction to hospitals and inpatient care

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Springer Pub.
Language
English
Pages
351

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Table of Contents

Ch. 1. Hospitals: from stand-alone to networks and systems
Ch. 2. Paying for hospital care
Ch. 3. Working in teams
Ch. 4. Nurses and nursing care
Ch. 5. Training physicians in the hospital
6. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners
Ch. 7. Medical informatics
Ch. 8. Hospitalization can be dangerous
Ch. 9. Preventing functional decline
Ch. 10. Choosing alternatives to restraints
Ch. 11. Deciding about diets
Ch. 12. Wound care
Ch. 13. The delirious patient
Ch. 14. Isolation
Ch. 15. Care management and case management
Ch. 16. Hospitalists
Ch. 17. Easing the transition between nursing home and hospital
Ch. 18. Discharge planning
Ch. 19. Maintaining the patient's health in the community
Ch. 20. Families: roles, needs, and expectations
Ch. 21. Providing culturally competent care
Ch. 22. Ethics committees and case consultation
Ch. 23. The patient as research participant
Ch. 24. End-of-life care planning
Ch. 25. Preventing errors
Ch. 26. Risk management
Ch. 27. The role of outcomes research
Ch. 28. Creating quality improvement projects.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1/1/068
Library of Congress
RA981.A2 I5526 2003, RA981.A2I5526 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 351 p. :
Number of pages
351

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL19152189M
Internet Archive
introductiontoho0000unse
ISBN 10
0826121942
LCCN
2002036656
OCLC/WorldCat
50913521
Goodreads
151551

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OL17902831W

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