| Description |
xv, 707 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Oxford medical handbooks |
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Oxford medical publications.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Ageing -- 2.Organizing geriatric services -- 3.Clinical assessment of older people -- 4.Rehabilitation -- 5.Falls and funny turns -- 6.Drugs -- 7.Neurology -- 8.Stroke -- 9.Psychiatry -- 10.Cardiovascular -- 11.Chest medicine -- 12.Gastroenterology -- 13.Renal medicine -- 14.Homeostasis -- 15.Endocrinology -- 16.Haematology -- 17.Musculoskeletal system -- 18.Pressure injuries -- 19.Genitourinary medicine -- 20.Incontinence -- 21.Ears -- 22.Eyes -- 23.Skin -- 24.Infection and immunity -- 25.Malignancy -- 26.Death and dying -- 27.Ethics -- 28.Finances |
| Summary |
In an ageing population, geriatric medicine has become central to general practice, and to emergency and general internal medicine in the hospital setting. Diseases are more common in the older person, and can be particularly difficult to assess and to treat effectively in a field that has limited evidence, yet makes up a substantial proportion of the work of most clinicians. Fully updated, this second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine includes all theinformation required to deliver effective geriatric care. Guidance is given on a range of key treatment areas, indicating where practice differs from that of younger adults or is ill informed by evidence, where dangers lurk for the inexperienced clinician, and on the many ethical and clinical dilemmas commonin geriatric practice |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Geriatrics.
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| Author |
Price, James D. (Physician)
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Smith, Sarah C. (Physician)
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| ISBN |
0199586098 (paperback) |
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9780199586097 (paperback) |
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