The high altitude medicine handbook

Radcliffe Medical Press

Domiciliary care is a sensitive and complex subject. Can I obtain suitable care workers? Which organisations can I call on for support? What are the obligations placed on homeowners? If a relative wishes to remain at home do you know what to do? These are questions often asked by health professionals social workers and service users. This book answers such questions gives choices and shows how to implement decisions. It is essential reading for the new primary care organisations community practitioners primary healthcare teams practitioners in palliative care and geriatrics charities and volunteer groups.

Commissioning Domiciliary Care: A Practical Guide to Purchasing Services

Politics & Social Sciences

Rothwell-Murray, Colleen

Macara, Sandy

Politics & Government

The advent of eHealth and particularly telemedicine has placed the health sector at a crossroads represented by two differing views. One that eHealth is a support to the traditional care-giving model the other that eHealth is the trigger of a new healthcare paradigm. Taking Health Telematics into the 21st Century is a comprehensive text that guides the reader through all aspects of eHealth. With contributions from a wide range of professionals with extensive experience it describes the current use of telemedicine telematics and telecommunications and its future global potential and implications. Case studies from around the world are used to illustrate and explore the complex ethical and legal issues concerning patients and clinicians.

Taking Health Telematics into the 21st Century

Roberts, Ruth

Rigby, Michael

Thick, Michael

Sala Mandik

Medical Books

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities. Understanding these changes is essential and this practical and authoritative handbook addresses them all.  The authors all have first-hand experience of the radical changes underway.  The clear straightforward format is designed to allow quick access to relevant and up-to-date information.  The book is vital reading for every community practitioner.

Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Handbook

Carnell, Jackie

Kline, Roger

This book is a standard text for those with an interest in palliative care. In this third edition, there have been major revisions in relation to pain and symptom management, and drug profiles. The section on ethics has been expanded. The focus is still on the care of patients with terminal cancer, yet the general principles and most of the details are equally applicable to patients dying from other progressive disorders. Students of palliative care professionals at all levels need an awareness of the delicate ethical and emotional issues concerned and of the evolving approaches to available therapies. Emphasizing the needs of the whole person, this book examines the systems of care in hospices and at home, the ethics of palliative care, communicating wtih dying patients and their relatives, meeting their psychological and spiritual needs, and pain and symptom management including drug profiles. Developed from the author's training programme now used in many countries around the world, "Introducing Palliative Care" is a structured and essential manual for those working in this demanding field.

Introducing palliative care

Robert G. Twycross

General Practioners Handbook (Business Side of General Practice)

Chisholm, John

Ellis, Norman

Grantham, David

Not another book about statistics? Yes and no. This book is unique in being written for people who want to be able to make sense of published studies or embark on their own studies without getting bogged down by the details of how to use specific methods. It gives insight into how statisticians view data and research and into what they do. This book is virtually formula free and it does not describe the mechanics of techniques but is packed with ideas and examples. It describes how statisticians use data and provides a thorough explanation of statistical concepts in the context of real studies to enable the reader to make informed judgements. Invaluable for those involved in research it shows how to combine formal results with common and clinical sense.

Making Sense of Statistics in Healthcare

Hart, Anna

Harnessing Health Information Series Series Editor: Michael Rigby Information for Managing Healthcare Resources helps managers justify their decisions by providing routes to information and evidence and explains current developments in healthcare information for those with no prior specialist knowledge giving numerous practical examples. The book demonstrates that readily available information can best support decisions on the management of healthcare resources leading to effective 'evidence based management'. It identifies the principal sources of information in healthcare and analyses how information use varies in relation to the culture of organisations. Information for Managing Healthcare Resources takes a whole systems approach to managing resources considering workforce estate supplies and finance. Clinicians managers and information staff in healthcare will find this book a concise and practical guide to assist in managing sustainable change. For more information on other titles in this series please click here

Information for Managing Healthcare Resources (Harnessing Health Information Series)

Bullas, Sheila

Ariotti, Dallas

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Coronary heart disease is the single most common cause of death in the UK. Much of the ensuing morbidity and premature morbidity is preventable and the Government is addressing this with the National Service Framework (NSF) initiative. This is a practical text that can be used by an individual practice team or by a group of practices working together. It gives examples of personal development plans and a practice learning plan showing how the information can be applied by a GP health professional or practice team. Topics such as heart failure smoking cessation and primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease are included as well as appendices providing NSF standards and goals Read codes and further useful information. It is relevant for all members of the primary healthcare team and also for public health physicians nurses and clinical governance leads responsible for implementing the NSF for coronary heart disease in their local area.

Implementing the National Service Framework for Coronary Disease in Primary Care

Iqbal, Zafar

Chambers, Ruth

Woodmansey, Paul

Robert Twycross and Andrew Wilcock , respectively Macmillan Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, University of Oxford, Consultant Physician, Sir Michael Sobell House, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative and Cancer Care; Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine and Medical Oncology, University of Nottingham, Consultant Physician, Hayward House Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care Unit, Nottingham Hospital NHS Trust Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer has become an established text showing doctors and carers how to provide a high level of physical and psychological comfort. This new edition has been updated and expanded, incorporating a new chapter on clinical guidelines. It offers practical information and advice on controlling the range of symptoms that students and experienced healthcare professionals in cancer care encounter daily, and provides a framework of knowledge enabling the clinician to develop a scientific approach to managing symptoms. It is illustrated with colour plates and includes guidance on common abbreviations, charts and tables for easy reference.

Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer

Twycross, Robert G.

Wilcock, Andrew

Medicine

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