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Expertly manage the most common diseases and conditions encountered in hospital medicine!

Practical books such as this one take a giant step to bringing together the current body of usable knowledge to help hospitalists succeed....Hospitalists need to rely on books like this one for up to date information.--Laurence D. Wellikson, MD, FACP, CEO, Society of Hospital Medicine (from the foreword)

This concise yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for certification, re-certification, and CME--or for use as a clinical refresher. Featuring expert insights, its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies must-know content for maximum yield and minimum time.

FEATURES::

  • Ideal for both specialists and generalists who manage subspecialty care in the increasingly complex hospital environment
  • Complete, A-to-Z overview of all diseases and disorders commonly seen by hospitalists
  • Expert, up-to-date coverage of unique, need-to-know concepts in hospital medicine--including key clinical, organizational, and administrative issues
  • Practical coverage of the most common diagnostic-related groups in hospital-based health care
  • An incisive look at patient safety that helps you ensure optimal care
  • Logically organized, easy-to-follow chapters help focus your study and provide rapid access to specific subjects
  • Includes coverage of key organizational and administrative issues
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McGraw Hill / Medical
45496
9780071463959
9780071463959

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Publication date
2008
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
688
Dimensions (mm)
213 x 269
Weight (g)
1367
  • Contributors
    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    Section 1: THE HOSPITALIST MOVEMENT
    1. Hospital Medicine in the United States: Growth, Prevalence, and Challenges, Winthrop F. Whitcomb
    2. The Role of the Hospitalist as Defined in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, Daniel D. Dressler
    3. Innovative New Roles in the Hospital, Lance Rachelefsky and Sylvia C. McKean
    Section 2: SYSTEMS--HOSPITALISTS AS LEADERS IN PATIENT SAFETY
    4. General Overview of Patient Safety, Sylvia C. McKean and Allan Frankel
    5. Adverse Drug Events, Frank Federico
    6. Medication Discrepancies and Medication Reconciliation, Jeffrey L. Schnipper
    7. Polypharmacy, Jatin K. Dave and Juergen Bludau
    8. Patient Safety: Preventing and Responding to Adverse Events, Allen Kachalia and Tejal K. Gandhi
    Section 3: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
    9. Quality Improvement for the Hospitalist, Lakshmi K. Halasyamani and Erin R. Stucky
    Section 4: HOSPITALIST AS MANAGER
    10. Management for Hospitalists, Michael Friedlander and Mohammad Salameh
    Section 5: HOSPITALISTS AND CARE TRANSITIONS AND TEAMWORK
    11. Principles of Good Teamwork, Janet Nagamine
    12. Strategies to Optimize Length of Stay, Kathleen M. Finn
    13. Handoffs, Vineet Arora and Julie Johnson
    14. Discharge Summaries, Marcy G. Carty and Namita s. Mohta
    15. Patient Education in the Hospital, Marie Neaton
    16. Managing Test Results at Hospital Discharge, Christopher L. Roy
    Section 6: EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
    17. An Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine, Eduardo Ortiz
    18. Evidence-Based Medicine--Testing, Sylvia C. McKean and Eduardo Ortiz
    19. the Growing Importance of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Managing Hospitalized Patients, Jerome Lewis Avorn20. Hospitalist as Researcher, LeRoi Hicks
    Section 7: HOSPITALIST CLINICAL CORE COMPETENCIES
    Cardiovascular Illness
    21. Chest Pain, Timothy D. Brennan
    22. Suspected Angina, Aaron S. Wenger
    23. Acute Coronary Syndromes, Hacho Bohossian
    24. Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Apoor Patel
    25. Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter, Robert D. Winslow
    26. Supreventricular Tachycardia, Mara Giattina
    27. Sinus Bradycardia and Atrioventricular Blocks, Apoor Patel
    28. Ventricular Arrhythmias, Beth Liston
    29. Heart Failure due to Diastolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
    30. Heart Failure due to Systolic Dysfunction, Colleen M. Crumlish and James C. Fang
    31. Syncope, Daniel W. Mudrick
    32. Hypertensive Urgencies/Emergencies, Renee Y. Meadows
    33. Secondary Hypertension, Renee Y. Meadows
    Endocrine Disorders
    34. Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemia, Mohannad Salameh
    35. Hyperglycimia in the Critical Care Unit, A. Rebecca Daniel
    36. Hyperglycemia in Noncritically-Ill Hospitalized Patients, Aditi R. Saxena and Merri L. Pendergrass
    37. Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism, Rachael Fawcett and Erik K. Alexander
    Gastrointestinal Illness
    38. Abdominal Pain, Norton J. Greenberger
    39. Abnormal Liver Enzymes and Acute Hepatitis, Mary Ann H. Sherbondy
    40. Cirrhosis, Thomas M. Shehab
    41. Colitis and Diarrhea, Including Clostridium difficile, Marvin Ryou
    42. Crohns Disease, Jonathan Levine and Robert Burakoff
    43. Ulcerative Colitis, Scott Hande and Robert Burakoff
    44. Diverticular Disease and Diverticulitis, Norton J. Greenberger
    45. Pancreatitis, Eric R. Schumacher
    46. Small Bowel Obstruction, Lynn Wilkinson
    47. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Naresh T. Gunaratnam
    48. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Naresh T. Gunaratnam
    Hematological Derangements
    50. Sickle Cell Disease, Andrew D. Campbell
    51. Thrombocytopenia, Rovie Mesola
    52. Transfusion Medicine, Susan Coutinho McAllister, Eric Kupersmith, and Alpesh Amin
    Infectious Diseases
    53. Fever of Unknown Origin, David Oxman and Harry Schrager
    54. Bacterial Endocarditis, John J. Ross
    55. Community- and Hospital-Acquired UTI, John J. Ross
    56. Hospital-Acquired Bacteremia, Danielle Scheurer
    57. Influenza, John J. Ross
    58. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Ranjan Chowdhry and Harry M. Schrager
    59. Viral Gastroenteritis, Harry Schrager
    60. Antibiotic Resistance, John J. Ross
    Neurologic Illness
    61. Confusion: Examination and Differential Diagnosis, Zeina Chemali
    62. Delirium, Jatin K. Dave, Colleen M. Crumlish, and James Rudolph
    63. Ischemic Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attacks, Susan L. Hickenbottom
    64. Cerebral Hemorrhage, Galen V. Henderson
    65. Meningitis/Encephalitis, Susan L. Hickenbottom
    66. Seizure, Susan L. Hickenbottom
    Psychiatric Illness
    67. Assessing Capacity for Medical Decision Making, David F. Gitlin and Ajita Mathur
    68. Behavioral Disturbances That Interfere with Medical Care, Michelle Nichols
    69. Drug Overdose, A. Rebecca Daniel
    70. Management of Patients with Alcohol Abuse, Sylvia C. McKean
    71. Management of Patients with Drug Abuse, Mohammad Salameh
    72. Management of Suicidal Patients, Christine K. Kim, Meghan Kolodziej, and David F. Gitlin
    Pulmonary Illness/Critical Care Medicine
    73. Shortness of Breath, Andrew S. Karson and Sylvia C. McKean74. Asthma, Andrew S. Karson
    75. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Andrew S. Karson
    76. Acute Respiratory Failure, Abigail R. Lara and William J. Janssen
    77. Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Adrienne L. Bennett
    78. Hospital-Acquired, Ventilator-Associated and Healthcare-Acquired Pneumonia, Nathan J. ODorisio
    79. Complications of Pneumonia, Karen Catignani
    80. Sepsis and Septic Shock, William J. Janssen
    81. Ventilatory Support, Joshua J. Solomon, Ryan McGhan, and William J. Janssen
    Renal Illness
    82. Prevention of Acute Renal Failure in the Hospital, Glen M. Kim
    83. Acute Renal Failure, Prabhdeep Sandhu and Adam C. Schaffer
    84. Chronic Kidney Disease, Li-Li Hsiao and Valerie Luyckx
    85. Care of the Hospitalized Dialysis Patient, J. Kevin Tucker
    86. Acid-Base Disorders, David V. Gugliotti
    87A. Disorders of Sodium and Water, Kambiz Zandi-Nejad and Chin C. Tang
    87B. Disorders of Potassium, Kambiz-Zandi-Nejad and Chin C. Tang
    Venous Thromboembolism
    88. Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Medical and Surgical Patients, Sylvia C. McKean
    89. Venous Thromboembolism, Amir Jaffer and Franklin Michota
    90. Anticoagulant Therapies, Rosalyn M. Nazaria and Michael Laposata
    Section 8: HOSPITALISTS AS EXPERTS
    91. Deconditioning, Joanne Borg-Stein and Claudia Wheeler
    92. Nutrition and the Hospitalized Patient, Vihas Patel and Malcolm K. Robinson
    93. Pain Management, Darin J. Correll
    94. Palliative Care: Overview and Symptom Management, Jane deLima Thomas and David F. Giansiracusa
    95. Palliative Care: Caring for the Dying Patient, David F. Giansiracusa and Jane deLima Thomas
    96. Palliative Care: Communication, David F. Giansiracusa and Jane DeLima Thomas
    Section 9: HOSPITALISTS CARING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
    97. Care of Vulnerable Populations, Cheryl Clark
    98. Inpatient Care of the Frail Older Adult, Anne Fabiny
    99. Oncologic Emergencies for the Hospitalist, Rundsarah Tahboub
    100. Skilled Nursing Facility Care, Darrell W. Craig
    Section 10: HOSPITALIST AS MEDICAL CONSULTANT
    101. Preoperative Evaluation of the Patient Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery, Satyen S. Nichani
    102. Perioperative Medication Management, Vibhu Sharma and Steven L. Cohn
    103. Preoperative Screening Tests, Ali Azarm and Steven L. Cohn
    104. Postoperative Complications, Danielle Scheurer and Cregg Ashcraft
    105. Surgical Comanagement, Shaun Frost
    Section 11: HOSPITALIST AS TEACHER
    106. Adult Learning Principles and Hospitalist Medicine, Grace Huang
    107. Teaching Venues for the Hospitalist, Bradley A. Sharpe
    108. Teaching on a Team, Cindy Lai
    109. Feedback and the Hospitalist, Anjala Tess
    110. Scholarship and Career Development for the Hospitalist Clinician Educator, Preetha Basaviah and Subha Ramani
    Index

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