Medical : Health Care Delivery

New addition to the ABC series looking at how technology can aid health care. This ABC focuses on how patient data, health knowledge, and local service information are managed during the routine tasks that make up clinical work. It looks at medical record keeping, how to use the information that records contain for clinical, quality improvement and research activities, how to use new media to communicate with clinical colleagues and patients, and the availability and uses of clinical knowledge resources. After a short introduction to health informatics, each chapter is organised around a typical patient scenario that illustrates information dilemmas arising in clinical consultations. These case studies help make the link between prescribing and treatment. A final chapter considers the implications of informatics and eHealth for the future of the health professions and their work. It also includes a glossary of health informatics terms. Click on the sample chapter above for a look at what is health information. more...

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Leaders often struggle when faced with the challenge of restructuring or rightsizing their organizations or redesigning reporting relationships. Don’t make the mistakes many make when they fail to do appropriate due diligence by addressing the symptoms of the perceived business problem rather than the root causes. Check out this practical and informative book first. As the title suggests, it is a real-world guide to organization design. It is written by a global corporate executive and management consultant with 25 years of experience advising senior executives on strategic change. And it is a rich resource of insight and hands-on templates and tools designed to ensure you succeed at one of the toughest jobs a leader will face. Organization Design is organized into two sections. Section I presents a primer for executives on organization design. Section II introduces organization design methodology. Included are practical templates to help you quantitatively prioritize design alternatives, formalize and clarify the project, optimize how interdependent units work together, compare and contrast the financial impacts of each design alternative, conduct a sanity check regarding the future state of the organization, guide the design of the organization from selection of the high-level structure to designing roles and jobs, and handle all the vital tasks ahead with confidence. more...

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This brand new title in the popular ABC series offers an up-to-date introduction on improving patient safety in primary and secondary care. The ABC of Patient Safety covers an area of increasing importance in healthcare and provides a clear description of the underlying principles that influence practice. Patient safety is now an integral part of the training for all Foundation doctors and is rapidly becoming a component of many undergraduate and postgraduate exams, including the nMRCGP. This book is an ideal companion for this training. A wide variety of clinical staff and managers in primary and secondary care will find this book an essential text, offering an ideal theoretical and practical aid to patient safety. GPs and practice managers will find this book of particular interest, as well as medical and nursing students. more...

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This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 200,000 to 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. more...

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Phillips establishes a framework for understanding the issues pertinent to Australian Indigenous addictions to alcohol, gunga (marijuana) and gambling and its aftermath in one community, Big River which is a fictitious name for a real community. more...

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