| Description |
xv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Steven Velick -- 1. Hospitals: From Stand-Alone to Networks and Systems / Havva Idriss -- 2. Paying for Hospital Care / Kyle L. Grazier -- 3. Working in Teams / Eugenia L. Siegler -- 4. Nurses and Nursing Care / Christine T. Kovner -- 5. Training Physicians in the Hospital / Mark S. Pecker and Eugenia L. Siegler -- 6. Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners / Freddi I. Segal-Gidan -- 7. Medical Informatics / David A. Campbell and Peter D. Stetson -- 8. Hospitalization Can Be Dangerous / Barrie G. Raik -- 9. Preventing Functional Decline / Sandy B. Ganz -- 10. Choosing Alternatives to Restraints / Elizabeth Capezuti and Sharon Stahl Wexler -- 11. Deciding About Diets / Bruce Kinosian, Rebecca Berlin, Charlene Compher and Robert Cato -- 12. Wound Care / Elizabeth A. Ayello and Eugenia L. Siegler -- 13. The Delirious Patient / Lisa Honkanen and Bharathi Raman -- 14. Isolation / Barry Gallison -- 15. Care Management and Case Management / Barbara Doyle, Beryl C. Vallejo, Margaret Horgan and Janice B. Foust -- 16. Hospitalists / Saeid Mirafzali -- 17. Easing the Transition Between Nursing Home and Hospital / Kenneth S. Boockvar and Maria Camargo -- 18. Discharge Planning / Janice B. Foust and Margaret Dimond -- 19. Maintaining the Patient's Health in the Community / Veronica LoFaso -- 20. Families: Roles, Needs, and Expectations / Sona Euster -- 21. Providing Culturally Competent Care / Alexander R. Green, Joseph R. Betancourt and J. Emilio Carrillo -- 22. Ethics Committees and Case Consultation / Shantanu K. Agrawal and Joseph J. Fins -- 23. The Patient as Research Participant / Alice Herb -- 24. End-of-Life Care Planning / Jessica B. Scholder, Abraham A. Brody and Melissa M. Bottrell -- 25. Preventing Errors / Molla Sloane Donaldson -- 26. Risk Management / Brian K. Regan -- 27. The Role of Outcomes Research / Mark A. Callahan, Nathaniel Hupert and David S. Battleman -- 28. Creating Quality Improvement Projects / Robert J. Rosati |
| Summary |
This book offers an overview of key elements of the hospital -- its structure, administration, and its functioning. Students and new clinicians may be so focused on mastering specific clinical skills that they have little time to observe or question the whole process of care. This book looks beyond acute disease to the environment of care, how it works, how it doesn't work, and how it might improve. Issues discussed include understanding and communicating with families, the basics of hospital finance, how dangerous hospitalization can be to the elderly, and how to minimize errors. Medical stud |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hospitals -- Administration.
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Hospital care.
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Hospital patients -- Services for.
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Hospital Administration.
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Ethics, Institutional.
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Inpatients.
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Patient Care.
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Quality Assurance, Health Care.
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| Author |
Siegler, Eugenia L.
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Mirafzali, Saeid.
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Foust, Janice B.
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| LC no. |
2002036656 |
| ISBN |
0826121942 |
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