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“brian hurwitz”

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  • Emerging Values in Health Care

    The Challenge for Professionals

    by Moira Dumma, Paquita de Zulueta, Kieran Sweeney, Brian Hurwitz, Bronwen Davies, David Badcott, Paul Ballard, Andrew Edgar, Lynn Knight, Srikant Sarangi, Julia McKeown, Derek Sellman, Heather Skirton, Chris Swift, Chrissie Hockley, Alan Nathan ...
    Professional values in healthcare are in a state of constant and increasingly rapid change. While all professions now emphasise teamwork and collegiality in practice, fewer are inclined to consider shared or differing values across professions.This interdisciplinary volume explains how health care professions and their values have changed over the last forty years, charting where they have come ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Clinical Guidelines and the Law

    Negligence, Discretion, and Judgement

    by Brian Hurwitz ...
    Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians, capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists. Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more accountable to their patients. - But how can clinicians tell whether a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Health Care Errors and Patient Safety

    Edited by Brian Hurwitz, Aziz Sheikh ...
    The detection, reporting, measurement, and minimization of medical errors and harms is now a core requirement in clinical organizations throughout developed societies. This book focuses on this major new area in health care. It explores the nature of medical error, its incidence in different health care settings, and strategies for minimizing errors and their harmful consequences to patients. ... Read more

    $85.00 USD

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  • Patient Safety

    by Charles Vincent ...
    When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to patients, and he provides practical guidance on implementing safer practices in health care.The second edition puts greater emphasis on ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • Clinical Governance: Improving The Quality Of Healthcare For Patients And Service Users

    by Mary Gottwald, Gail Lansdown ...
    This is an accessible and practical guide to clinical governance in healthcare, designed to help practitioners and students deliver better care to patients. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • How to Read a Paper

    The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine

    by Trisha Greenhalgh ...
    How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a ... Read more

    $57.25 USD

  • Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance

    by Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran, Rob Anderson ...
    Series series At a Glance
    First Prize in Public health in the 2017 BMA Medical Book AwardsPublic Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students understand the determinants of health and their study, from personal lifestyle choices and behaviour, to ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care

    Edited by Valerie Nixon ...
    Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care explores a range of contemporary relevant topics fundamental to professional practice. Written for both pre- and post-registration paramedic students, it is also ideal for existing practitioners looking to develop their CPD skills as well as nursing and other health professionals working in emergency and urgent care settings.Each ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book

    Evidence-Based Practice Manual for Nurses - E-Book

    by Rosalind L Smyth ...
    The Evidence-based Practice Manual successfully breaks down the skills for evidence-based nursing into manageable components. The reader will learn how to find, critically read and interpret a range of research studies, and will discover optimal approaches to helping patients reach decisions that are informed by the best-available evidence. The more-strategic concepts of developing an ... Read more

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  • The Gold Standard

    The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine

    by Stefan Timmermans, Marc Berg ...
    Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized "best practices" open up a world of efficient health care delivery. The Gold Standard takes up this debate to investigate the real meaning of standardization and how it affects ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Everyday Medical Ethics and Law

    by BMA Medical Ethics Department ...
    Everyday Medical Ethics and Law is based on the core chapters of Medical Ethics Today, focussing on the practical issues and dilemmas common to all doctors. It includes chapters on the law and professional guidance relating to consent, treating people who lack capacity, treating children and young people, confidentiality and health records. The title is UK-wide, covering the law and guidance in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Safer Healthcare

    Strategies for the Real World

    by Charles Vincent, René Amalberti ...
    The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system.There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader vision ... Read more

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